CVE-2023-28431

Frontier is an Ethereum compatibility layer for Substrate. Frontier's modexp precompile uses num-bigint crate under the hood. In the implementation prior to pull request 1017, the cases for modulus being even and modulus being odd are treated separately. Odd modulus uses the fast Montgomery...

Design/Logic Flaw

Frontier is an Ethereum compatibility layer for Substrate. Frontier's modexp precompile uses num-bigint crate under the hood. In the implementation prior to pull request 1017, the cases for modulus being even and modulus being odd are treated separately. Odd modulus uses the fast Montgomery...

CVE-2023-28431

CVE-2023-28431 describes a vulnerability in Frontier’s modexp precompile used by Substrate. The implementation treats even and odd moduli differently: odd moduli use Montgomery multiplication, while even moduli fall back to a slower plain power algorithm. This mismatch caused a gas-cost discrepan...

CVE-2023-28431 Frontier's modexp precompile is slow for even modulus

Frontier is an Ethereum compatibility layer for Substrate. Frontier's modexp precompile uses num-bigint crate under the hood. In the implementation prior to pull request 1017, the cases for modulus being even and modulus being odd are treated separately. Odd modulus uses the fast Montgomery...

CVE-2023-28431 Frontier's modexp precompile is slow for even modulus

Frontier is an Ethereum compatibility layer for Substrate. Frontier's modexp precompile uses num-bigint crate under the hood. In the implementation prior to pull request 1017, the cases for modulus being even and modulus being odd are treated separately. Odd modulus uses the fast Montgomery...