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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-10-20T19:28:20

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:38:50.274Z

Reserved: 2021-10-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-42764

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-20T20:15:07.427

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:28:07.660

Link: CVE-2021-42764

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