🛡️ GHSA-6fgm-x6ff-w78f — packet-forward-middleware

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Potential Denial-of-Service condition leading to temporary disability in IBC transfers to the native chain

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](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/releases/tag/middleware%2Fpacket-forward-middleware%2Fv7.2.1) and [8.1.1](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/releases/tag/middleware%2Fpacket-forward-middleware%2Fv8.1.1) are patched.

Workarounds

N/A

References

N/A

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Affected software

GHSA-6fgm-x6ff-w78f is recorded against 5 packages.

  • github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v4
  • github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v5
  • github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v6
  • github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v7
  • github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v8

Timeline and source

Published on 12 February 2025 and last revised on 11 March 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-02-12
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-03-11
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v4
github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v5
github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v6
github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v7
github.com/cosmos/ibc-apps/middleware/packet-forward-middleware/v8

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