{"id":"GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch","aliases":["GO-2025-3514"],"status":"published","title":"cheqd-node affected by Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement","description":"# Description\n\n[An issue was discovered in IBC-Go's deserialization of acknowledgements](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw) that results in non-deterministic behavior which can halt a chain. Any user that can open an IBC channel can introduce this state to the chain.\n\nThis an upstream dependency used in cheqd-node, rather than a custom module.\n\n## Impact\nCould result in a chain halt.\n\n## Patches\nValidators, full nodes, and IBC relayers should upgrade to **[cheqd-node v3.1.7](https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node/releases/tag/v3.1.7)**. This upgrade does not require a software upgrade proposal on-chain and is meant to be non state-breaking.\n\n## References\nSee [ASA-2025-004: Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement can result in a chain halt](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw) upstream on IBC-Go.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"critical","from":"ghsa"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-502"],"published":"2025-03-11T21:54:29Z","modified":"2025-03-14T20:05:08Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node","fixed_in":["3.1.7"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1.7"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1.7"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node/security/advisories/GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch","tags":["web","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/commit/59987d52d959dc5876ffd4f307c9b33a52a43748","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3514","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch"},{"url":"https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch","title":"cheqd-node affected by Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement","description":"# Description\n\n[An issue was discovered in IBC-Go's deserialization of acknowledgements](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw) that results in non-deterministic behavior which can halt a chain. Any user that can open an IBC channel can introduce this state to the chain.\n\nThis an upstream dependency used in cheqd-node, rather than a custom module.\n\n## Impact\nCould result in a chain halt.\n\n## Patches\nValidators, full nodes, and IBC relayers should upgrade to **[cheqd-node v3.1.7](https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node/releases/tag/v3.1.7)**. This upgrade does not require a software upgrade proposal on-chain and is meant to be non state-breaking.\n\n## References\nSee [ASA-2025-004: Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement can result in a chain halt](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw) upstream on IBC-Go.","status":"published","published":"2025-03-11T21:54:29Z","modified":"2025-03-14T20:05:08Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-502"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:38:34.992855Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch","title":"cheqd-node affected by Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement","description":"# Description\n\n[An issue was discovered in IBC-Go's deserialization of acknowledgements](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw) that results in non-deterministic behavior which can halt a chain. Any user that can open an IBC channel can introduce this state to the chain.\n\nThis an upstream dependency used in cheqd-node, rather than a custom module.\n\n## Impact\nCould result in a chain halt.\n\n## Patches\nValidators, full nodes, and IBC relayers should upgrade to **[cheqd-node v3.1.7](https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node/releases/tag/v3.1.7)**. This upgrade does not require a software upgrade proposal on-chain and is meant to be non state-breaking.\n\n## References\nSee [ASA-2025-004: Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement can result in a chain halt](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw) upstream on IBC-Go.","status":"published","published":"2025-03-11T21:54:29Z","modified":"2025-03-14T20:05:07Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-502"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:35.050232Z"},{"id":"GO-2025-3514","title":"cheqd-node affected by Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement in github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node","description":"cheqd-node affected by Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement in github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node.\n\nNOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.\n\n(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)\n\nThe additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node before v3.1.7.","status":"published","published":"2025-03-13T14:46:08Z","modified":"2025-03-13T15:26:54.849187Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:47:01.728182Z"}]}}