CVE-2021-41138: Validity check for signed Frontier-specific extrinsic not called in block execution
paritytech · frontier
Affected: paritytech frontier · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
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Higher than 72% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. In the newly introduced signed Frontier-specific extrinsic for `pallet-ethereum`, a large part of transaction validation logic was only called in transaction pool validation, but not in block execution. Malicious validators can take advantage of this to put invalid transactions into a block. The attack is limited in that the signature is always validated, and the majority of the validation is done again in the subsequent `pallet-evm` execution logic. However, do note that a chain ID replay attack was possible. In addition, spamming attacks are of main concerns, while they are limited by Substrate block size limits and other factors. The issue is patched in commit `146bb48849e5393004be5c88beefe76fdf009aba`.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- paritytech · frontier< 146bb48
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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- paritytech
- Published
- October 2021
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