MEDIUM6.5

GHSA-cg8r-jwg7-r2x4

CosmWasm Allows Bypass of Capability Restrictions in Blockchains

Details

An issue in CosmWasm prior to v2.2.0 allows attackers to bypass capability restrictions in blockchains by exploiting a lack of runtime capability validation. This allows attackers to deploy a contract without capability enforcement, and execute unauthorized actions on the blockchain.

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Affected packages

crates.io/cosmwasm

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.2.0

Upgrade cosmwasm to 2.2.0 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25500[ADVISORY]
https://gist.github.com/H3T76/8096a6ff9410f3a6d9a25db1a68ae657#file-cve-2025-25500[WEB]
https://github.com/CVEProject/cveproject.github.io/blob/gh-pages/requester/reservation-guidelines.md[WEB]
https://github.com/CosmWasm/cosmwasm[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/CosmWasm/cosmwasm/blob/v2.2.0/CHANGELOG.md[WEB]