CVE-2022-21685 (GCVE-0-2022-21685)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-14 17:05 – Updated: 2025-04-23 19:11
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Title
Integer underflow in Frontier
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-191 - Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
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paritytech frontier Affected: < 8a93fdc
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