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Vulnerability · CVE-2022-37450

Go Ethereum (Geth) Time-Difference Value Manipulation Vulnerability

Published Jan 3, 2022 · catalog updated Jan 3, 2022 · Go Ethereum (Geth) Time-Difference

Patch now

CVE-2022-37450 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Go Ethereum (Geth) Time-Difference against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (Go Ethereum (Geth) Time-Difference).
  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
1.23%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor ethereum go_ethereum

Go Ethereum (aka geth) through 1.10.21 allows attackers to increase rewards by mining blocks in certain situations, and using a manipulation of time-difference values to achieve replacement of main-chain blocks, aka Riskless Uncle Making (RUM), as exploited in the wild in 2020 through 2022.

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  • vendor ethereum go_ethereumversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2022-37450

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2022-37450 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Go Ethereum (Geth) Time-Difference against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 1.23%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Jan 3, 2022 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    Go Ethereum (aka geth) through 1.10.21 allows attackers to increase rewards by mining blocks in certain situations, and using a manipulation of time-difference values to achieve replacement of main-chain blocks, aka Riskless Uncle Making (RUM), as exploited in the wild in 2020 through 2022.

  2. Jan 3, 2022 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2022-37450

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2022-37450

    30-day exploitation probability 1.2%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2022-37450

    Go Ethereum (aka geth) through 1.10.21 allows attackers to increase rewards by mining blocks in certain situations, and using a manipulation of time-difference values to achieve replacement of main-chain blocks, aka Riskless Uncle Making (RUM), as exploited in the wild in 2020 th

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.