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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2022-35936 json

Ethermint DoS through Unintended Contract Selfdestruct

published 2022-08-05 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-f92v-grc2-w2fg , GO-2022-0760 , EUVD-2022-6548

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Ethermint is an Ethereum library. In Ethermint running versions before `v0.17.2`, the contract `selfdestruct` invocation permanently removes the corresponding bytecode from the internal database storage. However, due to a bug in the `DeleteAccount`function, all contracts that used the identical bytecode (i.e shared the same `CodeHash`) will also stop working once one contract invokes `selfdestruct`, even though the other contracts did not invoke the `selfdestruct` OPCODE. This vulnerability has been patched in Ethermint version v0.18.0. The patch has state machine-breaking changes for applications using Ethermint, so a coordinated upgrade procedure is required. A workaround is available. If a contract is subject to DoS due to this issue, the user can redeploy the same contract, i.e. with identical bytecode, so that the original contract's code is recovered. The new contract deployment restores the `bytecode hash -> bytecode` entry in the internal state.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/evmos/ethermint 0.18.0
  • go github.com/evmos/evmos 7.0.0
  • go github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos 0.7.1-rc2
  • go github.com/Kava-Labs/kava 0.18.0
  • go github.com/evmos/evmos/v7 7.0.0
  • go github.com/kava-labs/kava 0.18.0
  • evmos ethermint 0.18.0
  • kava kava 0.18.0
  • evmos evmos 7.0.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/evmos/ethermint/blob/c9d42d667b753147977a725e98ed116c933c76cb/x/evm/keeper/statedb.go#L199-L203 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/evmos/ethermint
<0.18.0
0.18.0
go github.com/evmos/evmos
<7.0.0
all versions
7.0.0
go github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos
<0.7.1-rc2
0.7.1-rc2
go github.com/Kava-Labs/kava
<0.18.0
0.18.0
go github.com/evmos/evmos/v2
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/evmos/evmos/v3
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/evmos/evmos/v4
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/evmos/evmos/v5
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/evmos/evmos/v6
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/evmos/evmos/v7
<7.0.0
7.0.0
go github.com/kava-labs/kava
<0.18.0
0.18.0

Affected products

  • evmos ethermint

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Sources

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