CVE-2022-46173
HIGHDescription
Elrond-GO is a go implementation for the Elrond Network protocol. Versions prior to 1.3.50 are subject to a processing issue where nodes are affected when trying to process a cross-shard relayed transaction with a smart contract deploy transaction data. The problem was a bad correlation between the transaction caches and the processing component. If the above-mentioned transaction was sent with more gas than required, the smart contract result (SCR transaction) that should have returned the leftover gas, would have been wrongly added to a cache that the processing unit did not consider. The node stopped notarizing metachain blocks. The fix was actually to extend the SCR transaction search in all other caches if it wasn't found in the correct (expected) sharded-cache. There are no known workarounds at this time. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.50.
How to fix
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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
Exploit Intelligence
Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 51% of all known CVEs.
References
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Common questions
How do I fix CVE-2022-46173?
Upgrade elrond go to 1.3.50 or later.
Is CVE-2022-46173 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2022-46173 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 0.72% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 51% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2022-46173?
CVE-2022-46173 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.2, rated high. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2022-46173 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for elrond go (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
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