CVE-2024-37159 — Evmos is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Hub on the Cosmos Network

Evmos is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Hub on the Cosmos Network. This vulnerability allowed a user to create a validator using vested tokens to deposit the self-bond. This vulnerability is fixed in 18.0.0.

01What is this vulnerability?

Evmos is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Hub on the Cosmos Network. This vulnerability allowed a user to create a validator using vested tokens to deposit the self-bond. This vulnerability is fixed in 18.0.0.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
evmos	evmos	< 18.0.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-06-17T14:03:29.684Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T03:50:55.078Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/evmos/evmos/security/advisories/GHSA-pxv8-qhrh-jc7v
• github.com — https://github.com/evmos/evmos/commit/b2a09ca66613d8b04decd3f2dcba8e1e77709dcb