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Cosmos IBC Reentrancy Infinite Mint

In this article, we describe a vulnerability in ibc-go, the reference implementation of the Cosmos Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. A reentrancy vulnerability during the handling of timeout messages could have allowed an attacker to mint an infinite amount of IBC tokens on affected Cosmos chains.

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Ethereum Log Confusion in Polygon's Heimdall

In this blog post, we describe a vulnerability in Heimdall, the validator software of the Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain. This flaw, if exploited, could have allowed a rogue or compromised validator to take over the Heimdall consensus layer and inject fraudulent events into the StakeSync mechanism, a critical component of the Polygon PoS bridge, putting over $2B of crypto assets in the bridge at risk.