CVE-2024-37158 LOW

CVE-2024-37158: Evmos is missing precompile checks

Vendor Evmos
Product evmos
Weakness CWE-691
Published June 17, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

3.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Evmos is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Hub on the Cosmos Network. Preliminary checks on actions computed by the clawback vesting accounts are performed in the ante handler. Evmos core, implements two different ante handlers: one for Cosmos transactions and one for Ethereum transactions. Checks performed on the two implementation are different. The vulnerability discovered allowed a clawback account to bypass Cosmos ante handler checks by sending an Ethereum transaction targeting a precompile used to interact with a Cosmos SDK module. This vulnerability is fixed in 18.0.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 17, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated