GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch: cheqd-node affected by Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement
Description An issue was discovered in IBC-Go's deserialization of acknowledgements that results in non-deterministic behavior which can halt a chain. Any user that can open an IBC channel can introduce this state to the chain. This an upstream dependency used in cheqd-node, rather than a custom module. Impact Could result in a chain halt.
Published Mar 11, 2025 · Updated Mar 14, 2025
Affected packages
github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Affected
- < 3.1.7
- Fixed in
- 3.1.7
- Check
go list -m github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
Description
An issue was discovered in IBC-Go's deserialization of acknowledgements that results in non-deterministic behavior which can halt a chain. Any user that can open an IBC channel can introduce this state to the chain.
This an upstream dependency used in cheqd-node, rather than a custom module.
Impact
Could result in a chain halt.
Patches
Validators, full nodes, and IBC relayers should upgrade to [cheqd-node v3.1.7](https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node/releases/tag/v3.1.7). This upgrade does not require a software upgrade proposal on-chain and is meant to be non state-breaking.
References
See ASA-2025-004: Non-deterministic JSON Unmarshalling of IBC Acknowledgement can result in a chain halt upstream on IBC-Go.
Credited to swelf19.
References
- https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node/security/advisories/GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch
- https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-jg6f-48ff-5xrw
- https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/commit/59987d52d959dc5876ffd4f307c9b33a52a43748
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3514
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-33cr-m232-xqch
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