CVE-2021-39193

Transaction validity oversight in pallet-ethereum

Published Sep 3, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 1.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit number 0b962f218f0cdd796dadfe26c3f09e68f7861b26, a bug in `pallet-ethereum` can cause invalid transactions to be included in the Ethereum block state in `pallet-ethereum` due to not validating the input data size. Any invalid transactions included this way have no possibility to alter the internal Ethereum or Substrate state. The transaction will appear to have be included, but is of no effect as it is rejected by the EVM engine. The impact is further limited by Substrate extrinsic size constraints. A patch is available in commit number 0b962f218f0cdd796dadfe26c3f09e68f7861b26. There are no workarounds aside from applying the patch.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-2079 Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit number 0b962f218f0cdd796dadfe26c3f09e68f7861b26, a bug in `pallet-ethereum` can cause invalid transactions to be included in the Ethereum block state in `pallet-ethereum` due to not validating the input data size. Any invalid transactions included this way have no possibility to alter the internal Ethereum or Substrate state. The transaction will appear to have be included, but is of no effect as it is rejected by the EVM engine. The impact is further limited by Substrate extrinsic size constraints. A patch is available in commit number 0b962f218f0cdd796dadfe26c3f09e68f7861b26. There are no workarounds aside from applying the patch.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hw4v-5x4h-c3xm Transaction validity oversight in pallet-ethereum
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 1:58 AM
Reserved
Aug 16, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 3, 2021, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:03 AM