TechFlame reported on September 3, The Block reported that Reth, an Ethereum execution client developed by Paradigm, had a vulnerability, causing some nodes to temporarily stop.

Paradigm Chief Technology Officer Georgios Konstantopoulos said the vulnerability appeared at block height 2327426 and affected Ethereum mainnet versions 1.6.0 and 1.4.8. Although a node recovery order has been provided

, the team is still investigating the root cause of the vulnerability.

According to the data, Reth currently accounts for 5.4% of Ethereum execution layer clients. As an execution layer client developed in the Rust language, Reth focuses on high performance and modularity. This vulnerability only affects nodes using Reth, and has limited impact on the Ethereum network

as a whole.