CVE-2021-41153 is a high-severity vulnerability in the evm crate, a pure Rust implementation of the Ethereum Virtual Machine, affecting versions prior to 0.31.0. The vulnerability stems from an incorrect order of operations in the JUMPI opcode, where the condition check occurs after the destination validity check, deviating from standard Ethereum implementations like Geth and OpenEthereum. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with no authentication required, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While critical for Ethereum mainnet users, it is considered low severity for Frontier or standalone blockchain implementations. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.31.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:evm_project:evm:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
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