A Stack Overflow vulnerability was discovered in the TON Virtual Machine (TVM) before…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-674.
Summary
A Stack Overflow vulnerability was discovered in the TON Virtual Machine (TVM) before v2024.10. The vulnerability stems from the improper handling of vmstate and continuation jump instructions, which allow for continuous dynamic tail calls. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a smart contract with deeply nested jump logic. Even within permissible gas limits, this nested execution exhausts the host process's stack space, causing the validator node to crash. This results in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the TON blockchain network.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-70955
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-964f-vc2f-ch6j
- 2026-10-11 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
Other 4
- https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/commit/b5734d2e30b9c93cfdacb4ea37c9ebdf11ca5d49#diff-17eca9db515992a081522236bf9bad767fac171044f7c00c20bf740f4206b3de
- https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/releases/tag/v2024.10#:~:text=krigga%20%28emulator%29%2C-%2CArayz%2C-%40%20TonBit%20%28LS%20security
- https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wy2ea6udkNZzIsp1K2LEOQ
- https://gist.github.com/Lucian-code233/25b0a13be569db9160340d9ecd2fdf0d
Sources
- CVE-2025-70955 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-70955 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-964f-vc2f-ch6j · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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