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GHSA-6fgm-x6ff-w78f

MediumCVSS 6.9 / 10
Published Feb 12, 2025·Last modified Mar 11, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

Chains using affected versions of Packet Forward Middleware in their IBC Transfer stack are vulnerable to an attack in which there is a potential denial of service. This affects IBC transfers for any asset which is being transferred between another chain and its native chain.

We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

THIS IS A STATE BREAKING CHANGE

Patches

Versions 7.2.1 and 8.1.1 are patched.

Workarounds

N/A

References

N/A

Risk Scores
Base Score
6.9

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.

Threat Intelligence
2.7

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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