TI-2022-16433 Aliases CVE-2022-36008 GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp

Message length overflow in frontier

LOW 34CWE-190Published 2022-08-19 · Updated 2025-04-23

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · High · Low
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. A security issue was discovered affecting parsing of the RPC result of the exit reason in case of EVM reversion. In release build, this would cause the exit reason being incorrectly parsed and returned by RPC. In debug build, this would cause an overflow panic. No action is needed unless you have a bridge node that needs to distinguish different reversion exit reasons and you used RPC for this. There are currently no known workarounds.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.0125 69th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
paritytech	frontier	< commit fff8cc43b7756ce3979a38fc473f38e6e24ac451	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	fc-rpc (crates.io)	up to 1.0.0	—	No fix listed	GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp

frontier Vendorparitytech Affected < commit fff8cc43b7756ce3979a38fc473f38e6e24ac451 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
fc-rpc (crates.io) Vendor— Affected up to 1.0.0 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:parity:frontier:-:::::::*	not specified by NVD	Vulnerable	paritytech

cpe:2.3:a:parity:frontier:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·paritytech

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-36008
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp

References

Patch 2

Advisory 2

Other 1

https://github.com/paritytech/frontier

TI-2023-24151 Frontier opcode SUICIDE touches too many storage values on large contracts CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2023-12975 Frontier's modexp precompile is slow for even modulus CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2022-13155 Discrepency in transfer value and actual value due to incorrect truncation in Frontier CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
TI-2022-06061 Integer underflow in Frontier CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
TI-2022-18619 Incorrect Calculation in Frontier leads to inflated Ethereum chain gas prices CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
TI-2021-17977 Validity check for signed Frontier-specific extrinsic not called in block execution CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3

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Sources

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