Ethereum blockchain’s most popular software client Geth also known as “Go Ethereum,” has faced a major exploit on the older versions yesterday. The bug impacted older versions of Geth clients, specifically v1.10.7 and earlier.
The exploit reportedly affected more than 50% of older Ethereum clients who have not updated to the latest hotfix released by Go Ethereum developers on August 24. As a result of the exploit, the Ethereum blockchain went under an unplanned hard fork splitting the blockchain in two. 74% of the clients use Geth and out of those 73% were on the older version which means a whopping 54% of Ethereum nodes are running with the bug.
The Go Ethereum team discovered the vulnerability on August 18 itself but didn’t reveal the nature of it to avoid others to exploit the issue. Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi had said they would reveal the attack vector on an upcoming date,
“The exact attack vector will be provided at a later date to give node operators and dep
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