Highlights
Auth Bypass: 4 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
x/evm/keeper: most-fixed (3 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
9 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Signature Bypass: Attestation verification previously validated signatures against the latest stored validator set rather than the historical validator set version active at the time of the transaction, opening up signature bypass vulnerabilities during old transaction processing.
Auth Bypass: Absence of cryptographic and semantic integrity checks on transaction evidence permitted arbitrary transaction validation bypasses when verifying queue messages.
Denial of Service: Bypassing signature and fee grant checks during CheckTx operations allowed malformed/unfunded transactions into the mempool, leading to network denial of service.