CVE-2021-39193

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductParity Frontier
PublishedSep 3, 2021
First seenSep 3, 2021

How to fix

Update
  • parity frontier2021-09-03 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
parity frontierv < 2021-09-032021-09-03

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