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 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...

Legal Robot: Privilege Escalation to Admin-level Account

A security researcher discovered a potentially serious privilege escalation issue in our system which was ultimately traced to our use of the allow-deny package provided in the open source Meteor framework. We implemented a short-term fix using triggers - not great performance on the same day thi...