CVE-2021-41153 Specification non-compliance in JUMPI

What is CVE-2021-41153?

CVE-2021-41153 is a high-severity vulnerability in rust-blockchain evm, published on 18 Oct 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The evm crate is a pure Rust implementation of Ethereum Virtual Machine. In `evm` crate `< 0.31.0`, `JUMPI` opcode's condition is checked after the destination validity check. However, according to Geth and OpenEthereum, the condition check should happen before the destination validity check. This is a **high** severity security advisory if you use `evm` crate for Ethereum mainnet. In this case, you should update your library dependency immediately to on or after `0.31.0`. This is a **low** severity security advisory if you use `evm` crate in Frontier or in a standalone blockchain, because there's no security exploit possible with this advisory. It is **not** recommended to update to on or after `0.31.0` until all the normal chain upgrade preparations have been done. If you use Frontier or other `pallet-evm` based Substrate blockchain, please ensure to update your `spec_version` before updating this. For other blockchains, please make sure to follow a hard-fork process before you update this.

Weakness: CWE-670

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-41153?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including evm. It affects 1 product.

Products include Evm Project Evm.

How do I fix CVE-2021-41153?

Upgrade evm to 0.31.0 or later.

Is CVE-2021-41153 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-41153 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in rust-blockchain evm

• CVE-2021-29511 Memory over-allocation in evm crate Medium 6.5
• CVE-2024-21629 Erroneous handling of `record_external_operation` error return Medium 5.9
• CVE-2022-39354 evm has incorrect is_static parameter for custom stateful precompiles Medium 5.9

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-pvh2-pj76-4m96.