{"id":9172,"date":"2025-07-28T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:51:18","slug":"polkadot-frontier-contains-missing-checkinherent-for-notemingaspricetarget-inflates-gas-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zero.redgem.net\/?p=9172","title":{"rendered":"Polkadot Frontier contains missing `check_inherent` for `note_min_gas_price_target` inflates gas price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; max-width: 1200px; margin: 0 auto;\">\n<h2 style=\"color: #333; border-bottom: 2px solid #ffcc00; padding-bottom: 10px;\">CVE Details<\/h2>\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(300px, 1fr)); gap: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; \">Basic Information<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Title<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Polkadot Frontier contains missing `check_inherent` for `note_min_gas_price_target` inflates gas price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Type<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">cve<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Published<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">2025-07-28T20:20:04.064Z<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Modified<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">2025-07-28T20:38:02.249Z<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; \">Product Information<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Vendor<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">polkadot-evm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Product<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">frontier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Version<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">< a754b3d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; \">CVSS Information<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Base Score<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; color: #ffcc00; font-weight: bold;\">6.9 (MEDIUM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Attack Vector<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">CVSS:4.0\/AV:N\/AC:L\/AT:N\/PR:N\/UI:N\/VC:N\/VI:L\/VA:L\/SC:N\/SI:N\/SA:N<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px; border-radius: 5px; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0; \">Affected Products<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0; padding-left: 20px;\">\n<li>polkadot-evm frontier < a754b3d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; \">Additional Information<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">CWE List<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">CWE-682, CWE-754<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">Source<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;\">GitHub_M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; \">Description<\/h3>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px; border-left: 4px solid #4CAF50; \">Polkadot Frontier is an Ethereum and EVM compatibility layer for Polkadot and Substrate. The extrinsic note_min_gas_price_target is an inherent extrinsic, meaning only the block producer can call it. To ensure correctness, the ProvideInherent trait should be implemented for each inherent, which includes the check_inherent call. This allows other nodes to verify if the input (in this case, the target value) is correct. However, prior to commit a754b3d, the check_inherent function has not been implemented for note_min_gas_price_target. This lets the block producer set the target value without verification. The target is then used to set the MinGasPrice, which has an upper and lower bound defined in the on_initialize hook. The block producer can set the target to the upper bound. Which also increases the upper and lower bounds for the next block. Over time, this could result in continuously raising the gas price, making contract execution too expensive and ineffective for users. An attacker could use this flaw to manipulate the gas price, potentially leading to significantly inflated transaction fees. Such manipulation could render contract execution prohibitively expensive for users, effectively resulting in a denial-of-service condition for the network. This is fixed in version a754b3d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px; border-radius: 5px; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0; \">References<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0; padding-left: 20px;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/polkadot-evm\/frontier\/security\/advisories\/GHSA-r6rj-gmqh-cv94\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/polkadot-evm\/frontier\/security\/advisories\/GHSA-r6rj-gmqh-cv94<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/polkadot-evm\/frontier\/commit\/a754b3dc6e1b6da98f71aea7bb1fa08677b24186\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/polkadot-evm\/frontier\/commit\/a754b3dc6e1b6da98f71aea7bb1fa08677b24186<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dotpal.io\/assets\/files\/frontier-srlabs-2505-718c3bfa5df9fed1862fed05de506859.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dotpal.io\/assets\/files\/frontier-srlabs-2505-718c3bfa5df9fed1862fed05de506859.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 30px;\">\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #4CAF50; color: white; padding: 12px 24px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: bold; transition: background-color 0.3s;\">View Full CVE Details<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE Details Basic Information Title Polkadot Frontier contains missing `check_inherent` for `note_min_gas_price_target` inflates gas price Type cve Published 2025-07-28T20:20:04.064Z Modified 2025-07-28T20:38:02.249Z Product Information Vendor polkadot-evm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,8,48,12,21,13,7,11,5],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category_cve","tag-cve","tag-cvss","tag-cvss-69","tag-exploit","tag-medium","tag-news","tag-security","tag-tapic","tag-vulnerability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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