CVE-2025-25500

HIGH 7.5CVE-2025-25500 · Published 18/03/2025 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2025-25500 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting cosmwasm (cosmwasm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.80%, higher than 56.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.2.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cosmwasm cosmwasm	`< 2.2.0`	`2.2.0`

Description

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

gist.github.com/H3T76/8096a6ff9410f3a6d9a25db1a68ae657 · Broken Link

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