CVE-2022-31111CWE-670

Discrepency in transfer value and actual value due to incorrect truncation in Frontier

Medium · published July 6, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
71.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. In affected versions the truncation done when converting between EVM balance type and Substrate balance type was incorrectly implemented. This leads to possible discrepancy between appeared EVM transfer value and actual Substrate value transferred. It is recommended that an emergency upgrade to be planned and EVM execution temporarily paused in the mean time. The issue is patched in Frontier master branch commit fed5e0a9577c10bea021721e8c2c5c378e16bf66 and polkadot-v0.9.22 branch commit e3e427fa2e5d1200a784679f8015d4774cedc934. This vulnerability affects only EVM internal states, but not Substrate balance states or node. You can temporarily pause EVM execution (by setting up a Substrate `CallFilter` that disables `pallet-evm` and `pallet-ethereum` calls before the patch can be applied.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01382 · 71.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-670 · Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation
Published
2022-07-06T17:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JUL 17:15Z
    Discrepency in transfer value and actual value due to incorrect truncation in Frontier
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