# CVE-2021-41153: Specification non-compliance in JUMPI

- Also known as: GHSA-PVH2-PJ76-4M96
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.31.0
- Published: 2021-10-18 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- rust-blockchain evm: fixed in 0.31.0
- evm (crates.io): fixed in 0.31.0

## Description

The evm crate is a pure Rust implementation of Ethereum Virtual Machine. In `evm` crate `< 0.31.0`, `JUMPI` opcode's condition is checked after the destination validity check. However, according to Geth and OpenEthereum, the condition check should happen before the destination validity check. This is a **high** severity security advisory if you use `evm` crate for Ethereum mainnet. In this case, you should update your library dependency immediately to on or after `0.31.0`. This is a **low** severity security advisory if you use `evm` crate in Frontier or in a standalone blockchain, because there's no security exploit possible with this advisory. It is **not** recommended to update to on or after `0.31.0` until all the normal chain upgrade preparations have been done. If you use Frontier or other `pallet-evm` based Substrate blockchain, please ensure to update your `spec_version` before updating this. For other blockchains, please make sure to follow a hard-fork process before you update this.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rust-blockchain evm, evm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.31.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/rust-blockchain/evm/security/advisories/GHSA-pvh2-pj76-4m96
- https://github.com/rust-blockchain/evm/pull/67

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