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CVE-2022-24916

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-24916 describes an economic griefing vulnerability in Optimism's @eth-optimism/l2geth before version 0.5.11, where a balance is duplicated upon contract self-destruction. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high integrity impact by disrupting economic balances. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.5.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:optimism:eth-optimism\/l2geth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0155 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / ethereum-optimism/optimism/compare/%40eth-optimism%2Fl2geth%400.5.10...%40eth-optimism%2Fl2geth%400.5.11
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ethereum-optimism/optimism/pull/2146
PatchThird Party Advisory
news.ycombinator.com / item
Third Party Advisory
optimismpbc.medium.com / disclosure-fixing-a-critical-bug-in-optimisms-geth-fork-a836ebdf7c94
Third Party Advisory
saurik.com / optimism.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory