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CVE-2021-41138

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-41138 describes a vulnerability in Frontier, Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer, where a flaw in transaction validation logic for pallet-ethereum allowed malicious validators to insert invalid transactions into blocks. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) could lead to chain ID replay attacks and spamming, though signature validation and subsequent EVM logic limited its impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2021-09-30, < 2021-10-13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:parity:frontier:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-vj62-g63v-f8mfmedium

Validity check missing in Frontier

Oct 13, 2021

References

github.com / paritytech/frontier/commit/146bb48849e5393004be5c88beefe76fdf009aba
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / paritytech/frontier/pull/497
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / paritytech/frontier/security/advisories/GHSA-vj62-g63v-f8mf
PatchThird Party Advisory