Medium severity · published Jan 14, 2022
CVE-2022-21685
Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer
6.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit number `8a93fdc6c9f4eb1d2f2a11b7ff1d12d70bf5a664`, a bug in Frontier's MODEXP precompile implementation can cause an integer underflow in certain conditions. This will cause a node crash for debug builds. For release builds (and production WebAssembly binaries), the impact is limited as it can only cause a normal EVM out-of-gas. Users who do not use MODEXP precompile in their runtime are not impacted. A patch is available in pull request #549.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 71% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Frontier · Parity
through 2022-01-13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21685
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21685
Patch
https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/commit/8a93fdc6c9f4eb1d2f2a11b7ff1d12d70bf5a664
Patch
https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/549
Patch
https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/security/advisories/GHSA-cjg2-2fjg-fph4
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