CVE-2025-54427

Polkadot Frontier contains missing `check_inherent` for `note_min_gas_price_target` inflates gas price

MEDIUM
6.9
CVSS Score
Published: July 28, 2025 at 08:20 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:40 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFrontier

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Severity
MEDIUM6.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < a754b3d
Affected range stops below a754b3d, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

6.9MEDIUMGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-682CWE-754

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