Security Digest · Critical advisory (no CVE assigned)

GHSA-8pfh-j44r-f654: Cosmos EVM Vulnerability

Patches Patched in versions v0.3.1, v0.4.2, and in the v0.5.0 release.

GitHub-reviewed · critical

Should you act?

  • Only if you depend on one of the packages below, directly or transitively, in a vulnerable version. Check your lockfile with govulncheck ./....
  • No CVE has been assigned, so it will not appear in CVE-based scanners that ignore GitHub advisories. npm audit, pip-audit and Dependabot do read GitHub advisories.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFirst fixed
Gogithub.com/cosmos/evm>= 0.3.0, < 0.3.20.3.2
Gogithub.com/cosmos/evm>= 0.4.0, < 0.4.20.4.2

Details

Patches Patched in versions v0.3.1, v0.4.2, and in the v0.5.0 release. More information will be disclosed at a later point to ensure chains have time to safely upgrade.

Workarounds No workarounds for chains that make use of static or dynamic precompiles. Upgrading is strongly recommended.

Testing Tests are introduced in every affected version.

Credits Special thanks to @yihuang for the help on this issue.

Sources and references

  1. GitHub Advisory GHSA-8pfh-j44r-f654 github.com
  2. github.com github.com
  3. github.com github.com

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