CVE-2025-70956
A State Pollution vulnerability was discovered in the TON Virtual Machine (TVM) before v2025.04.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A State Pollution vulnerability was discovered in the TON Virtual Machine (TVM) before v2025.04. The issue exists in the RUNVM instruction logic (VmState::run_child_vm), which is responsible for initializing child virtual machines. The operation moves critical resources (specifically libraries and log) from the parent state to a new child state in a non-atomic manner. If an Out-of-Gas (OOG) exception occurs after resources are moved but before the state transition is finalized, the parent VM retains a corrupted state where these resources are emptied/invalid. Because RUNVM supports gas isolation, the parent VM continues execution with this corrupted state, leading to unexpected behavior or denial of service within the contract's context.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.47% probability · 39th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-1321
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://gist.github.com/Lucian-code233/beab9d14683ed2bdf5543be430b91c70
- https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/commit/1835d84602bbaaa1593270d7ab3bb0b499920416
- https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/releases/tag/v2025.04#:~:text=Arayz%2C%20Robinlzw%2C%20%40wy666444%20%40Lucian-code233
- https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ZD35baKUikefFdtNHZIC9g
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.