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There are currently no known workarounds.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.0125,"percentile":0.69636,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-190"],"published":"2022-08-18T19:18:25Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:43Z","affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"fc-rpc","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.0.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"fc-rpc","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.0.0"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"parity","product":"frontier"},{"vendor":"paritytech","product":"frontier"},{"vendor":"polkadot-evm","product":"frontier"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/security/advisories/GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/820","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/commit/fff8cc43b7756ce3979a38fc473f38e6e24ac451","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36008","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/36xxx/CVE-2022-36008.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/paritytech/frontier","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2022-36008","title":"Message length overflow in frontier","description":"Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. 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In debug build, this would cause an overflow panic.\n\nNo action is needed unless you have a bridge node that needs to distinguish different reversion exit reasons and you used RPC for this.\n\n### Patches\n\nThe issue is patched in https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/820\n\n### Workarounds\n\nNone.\n\n### References\n\nPR https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/820\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Email [Wei Tang](mailto:wei@that.world)","status":"published","published":"2022-08-18T19:18:25Z","modified":"2024-10-24T21:48:35Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-190"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:38:13.09489Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2022-36008","description":"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. 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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.\n\nNo action is needed unless you have a bridge node that needs to distinguish different reversion exit reasons and you used RPC for this.\n\n### Patches\n\nThe issue is patched in https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/820\n\n### Workarounds\n\nNone.\n\n### References\n\nPR https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/820\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Email [Wei Tang](mailto:wei@that.world)","status":"published","published":"2022-08-18T19:18:25Z","modified":"2024-10-24T21:48:34Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-190"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:51.811331Z"}]}}