GHSA-cg8r-jwg7-r2x4

CosmWasm Allows Bypass of Capability Restrictions in Blockchains

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-25500

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
crates.io	cosmwasm	< 2.2.0	2.2.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

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