Impact

This vulnerability affects the ibc-go package for those running full nodes, dubbed "Huckleberry". According to their advisory:

This issue is low-severity in general, and it has a low impact and likelihood of exploitation. Depending on how a full node is architected, this issue could potentially yield a high or critical severity vulnerability.

There is no vulnerability in the DID/resource modules for cheqd-node.

Patches

Node operators are requested to upgrade to cheqd-node v1.4.2. This is a non-state breaking release, and does not require a coordinated upgrade across all node operators.

Workarounds

No. Node operators are recommended to upgrade to the latest release version.

References

• "Huckleberry" IBC security advisory
• ibc-go v6.1.1 release notes

References

• GHSA-7c94-gvvj-r3mg
• cheqd/cheqd-node@f325f5f
• https://forum.cosmos.network/t/ibc-security-advisory-huckleberry/10731
• https://github.com/cheqd/cheqd-node/releases/tag/v1.4.2
• https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/releases/tag/v6.1.1