CVE-2021-42764

Publication date

2021-10-20 19:28:20

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum consensus protocol through 2021-10-19 allows an adversary to cause a denial of service (delayed consensus decisions), and also increase the profits of individual validators, via short-range reorganizations of the underlying consensus chain.