Vulnerability in Evmos

CVE-2024-37158

Evmos is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Hub on the Cosmos Network. Preliminary checks on actions computed by the clawback vesting accounts are performed in the ante handler. Evmos core, implements two different ante handlers: one for Cosmos transactions and one for Ethereum transactions. Checks performed on the two implementation are different. The vulnerability discovered allowed a clawback account to bypass Cosmos ante handler checks by sending an Ethereum transaction targeting a precompile used to interact with a Cosmos SDK module. This vulnerability is fixed in 18.0.0.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (35.9th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 36th percentile — 35.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2024-37158: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Evmos — versions < 18.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-37158?
CVE-2024-37158 is a low-severity vulnerability in Evmos, classified under CWE-691. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2024-06-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-37158?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.