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TI-2022-22817 Aliases CVE-2022-46173GHSA-p228-4mrh-ww7r

Elrond go Processing: fallback search of SCRs when not found in the main cache

Priority LOW 39CWE-669Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Low · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00786 56th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed elrond-go (ElrondNetwork): 1.3.50github.com/ElrondNetwork/elrond-go (Go): 1.3.50

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ElrondNetworkelrond-gobefore 1.3.501.3.50Patch availableCNA
—github.com/ElrondNetwork/elrond-go (Go)before 1.3.501.3.50Patch availableGHSA-p228-4mrh-ww7r
  • elrond-go VendorElrondNetwork Affected before 1.3.50 Fixed in 1.3.50 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/ElrondNetwork/elrond-go (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.3.50 Fixed in 1.3.50 Patch available GHSA-p228-4mrh-ww7r

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:elrond:elrond_go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.3.50VulnerableElrondNetwork
  • cpe:2.3:a:elrond:elrond_go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.3.50 Vulnerable ·ElrondNetwork

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA elrond-go (ElrondNetwork) Fixed in 1.3.50
  • Fix · GHSA-p228-4mrh-ww7r github.com/ElrondNetwork/elrond-go (Go) Fixed in 1.3.50 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-46173
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p228-4mrh-ww7r

References

Patch 2

Advisory 2

Other 1

  • TI-2022-16484 Elrond go can execute on same context checks in VM CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2022-16481 elrond-go MultiESDTNFTTransfer call on a SC address with missing function name CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

Sources

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