GHSA-gwj5-wp6r-5q9f Cronos vulnerable to DoS through unintended Contract Selfdestruct

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An attacker can cause denial of service for smart contracts sharing identical bytecode by triggering a selfdestruct on one contract, affecting all instances.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is GHSA-gwj5-wp6r-5q9f?

GHSA-gwj5-wp6r-5q9f is a denial of service vulnerability in github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos, published on 11 Aug 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Cronos nodes running versions before v0.7.0, the contract selfdestruct invocation permanently removes the corresponding bytecode from the internal database storage. However, due to a bug in Ethermint, 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. Thanks to the successfully coordinated security vulnerability disclosure, no smart contracts were impacted through the use of this vulnerability. Smart contract states and storage values are not affected by this vulnerability. This problem has been patched in Cronos v0.8.0. The patch has state machine-breaking changes and the required coordinated network upgrade was done on the block height 3982500 on the Cronos mainnet beta network. 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.

Which versions are affected by GHSA-gwj5-wp6r-5q9f?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos.

PackageAffectedFixed in
github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos GoAll versions0.8.0
github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos GoAll versions0.8.0
github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos GoAll versions0.8.0

How do I fix GHSA-gwj5-wp6r-5q9f?

Upgrade github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos to 0.8.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is GHSA-gwj5-wp6r-5q9f being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of GHSA-gwj5-wp6r-5q9f in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GO-2022-0829.

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