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CVE-2021-43839

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-43839 describes a vulnerability in Cronos nodes prior to version 0.6.5, allowing an attacker to steal transaction fees from the Cosmos SDK's FeeCollector by sending a specially crafted MsgEthereumTx. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) has a network attack vector and low complexity, enabling an unauthenticated attacker to impact the integrity of transaction fees. While there are no known active exploits, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, all validator node operators are strongly advised to upgrade to Cronos v0.6.5 immediately to mitigate this risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:crypto:cronos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 0.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:crypto:ethermint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.8.0, <= 0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:crypto:ethermint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:crypto:evmos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0131 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronosFixed in: 0.6.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/tharsis/ethermintFixed in: 0.10.0
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/tharsis/ethermintFixed in: 0.7.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-f854-hpxv-cw9rhigh

Drainage of FeeCollector's Block Transaction Fees in cronos

Jan 6, 2022

References

github.com / crypto-org-chain/cronos/commit/150ef237b37ac28c8136e1c0f494932860b9ebe8
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / crypto-org-chain/cronos/pull/270
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / crypto-org-chain/cronos/security/advisories/GHSA-f854-hpxv-cw9r
Third Party Advisory