CVE-2022-36008 HIGH

CVE-2022-36008: Message length overflow in frontier

Vendor Paritytech
Product frontier
Weakness CWE-190
Published August 19, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

7.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. A security issue was discovered affecting parsing of the RPC result of the exit reason in case of EVM reversion. In release build, this would cause the exit reason being incorrectly parsed and returned by RPC. In debug build, this would cause an overflow panic. No action is needed unless you have a bridge node that needs to distinguish different reversion exit reasons and you used RPC for this. There are currently no known workarounds.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 19, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated