babylonlabs-io/babylon · Security
Babylon vulnerable to chain half when transaction has fees different than `ubbn`
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-56j4-446m-qrf6
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Summary
Sending transactions with fees different than native Babylon genesis denom (ubbn) leads to chain halt.
Impact
Denial of Service - Due to panic in the x/distribution module BeginBlocker triggered by a error when sending fees from feeCollector to x/distribution module - https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/blob/main/x/distribution/keeper/allocation.go#L28 Babylon Genesis will halt
CWEs
- CWE-755 · Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
References
- https://github.com/babylonlabs-io/babylon/security/advisories/GHSA-56j4-446m-qrf6 ↗
- https://github.com/babylonlabs-io/babylon/commit/fe67aebd5216e7d3afa1d7dee2a3f82e548556f3 ↗
- https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/blob/main/x/distribution/keeper/allocation.go#L28 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-56j4-446m-qrf6 ↗