NRDAX-T0156 - Mempool Pending Eviction Flood

memory_amp · active · first seen 2026-07-07

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2022-23328 (go-ethereum, CVSS 7.5, all versions <1.10.13): an attacker node sends 5120 PENDING high-gas-price txns from ONE account that each fully spend the account's FULL BALANCE, in one eth Tra

instances (2)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
ethereum	geth_mempool_spend_all_flood	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	geth_mempool_spend_all_flood	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23328 ↗
ethereum	geth_tx_future_flood	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	geth_tx_future_flood	https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pvx3-gm3c-gmpr ↗

related (memory_amp)

NRDAX-T0023 - Coalesced Packet Buffer Leak active NRDAX-T0025 - Compact Block Size Integer Overflow active NRDAX-T0038 - Count Underflow Header Serving Amplification active NRDAX-T0042 - Crypto Frame Reassembly Buffer Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0046 - Decompression Bomb Resource Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0059 - Duplicate Transport Parameter Memory Leak active NRDAX-T0061 - Duplicate Tx Mempool Index Desync active NRDAX-T0071 - Ethash Verification Memory Exhaustion active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0156

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0156.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0156,
  title = {Mempool Pending Eviction Flood (NRDAX-T0156)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0156},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0156",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Mempool Pending Eviction Flood (NRDAX-T0156)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0156",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}