Validity check missing in Frontier

Impact In the newly introduced signed Frontier-specific extrinsic for pallet-ethereum, a large part of transaction validation logic was only called in transaction pool validation, but not in block execution. Malicious validators can take advantage of this to put invalid transactions into a block...

GHSA-VJ62-G63V-F8MF Validity check missing in Frontier

Impact In the newly introduced signed Frontier-specific extrinsic for pallet-ethereum, a large part of transaction validation logic was only called in transaction pool validation, but not in block execution. Malicious validators can take advantage of this to put invalid transactions into a block...

CVE-2021-41138 Validity check for signed Frontier-specific extrinsic not called in block execution

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. In the newly introduced signed Frontier-specific extrinsic for pallet-ethereum, a large part of transaction validation logic was only called in transaction pool validation, but not in block execution. Malicious validators can take advantage of...

CVE-2021-41138

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. In the newly introduced signed Frontier-specific extrinsic for pallet-ethereum, a large part of transaction validation logic was only called in transaction pool validation, but not in block execution. Malicious validators can take advantage of...

PT-2021-23120

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Substrate's Frontier affected versions not specified Description The issue concerns Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer, Frontier. In the newly introduced signed Frontier-specific extrinsic for pallet-ethereum, a large part of transaction...

CVE-2018-16515

Matrix Synapse before 0.33.3.1 allows remote attackers to spoof events and possibly have unspecified other impacts by leveraging improper transaction and event signature validation...

CVE-2018-16515

Matrix Synapse before 0.33.3.1 allows remote attackers to spoof events and possibly have unspecified other impacts by leveraging improper transaction and event signature validation...

CVE-2018-3756

Hyperledger Iroha versions v1.0beta and v1.0.0beta-1 are vulnerable to transaction and block signature verification bypass in the transaction and block validator allowing a single node to sign a transaction and/or block multiple times, each with a random nonce, and have other validating nodes...

Distributed Guessing Attack Reels in Payment Card Data

Academics at Newcastle University have proven that an attacker in possession of a minimal amount of existing information can, in an automated way, guess payment card data by exploiting weaknesses in online payment processes. The issue lies in the fact that the global payment system lacks a...