CVE-2025-54429

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It considered the contract address running under CREATE or CREATE2 to be AddressType::EOA rather than correctly as AddressType::Contract. The issue only affects users who use custom precompile implementations that utilize AddressType::EOA and AddressType::Contract. It's not directly exploitable in any of the predefined precompiles in Frontier. This is fixed in version 0822030."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "Polkadot Frontier es una capa de compatibilidad con Ethereum y EVM para Polkadot y Substrate. Existen varios tipos de direcciones de cuenta en Frontier, como contratos precompilados, contratos inteligentes y cuentas externas. Por seguridad, algunos mecanismos de EVM deber\u00edan ser inaccesibles para ciertos tipos de cuentas. Para que las precompilaciones sean invocables por contratos inteligentes, deben configurarse expl\u00edcitamente como CallableByContract. 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