Hardfork took place on the Cosmos network to eliminate the critical vulnerability

The Tendermint team, working on the Cosmos project, reported on successful implementation of hard forks on the core network after a critical vulnerability was discovered.

? Attn: All Hands, Cosmos Hub

There was a critical security vulnerability found on #CosmosSDK two days ago. A patch was subsequently released ( https://t.co/amiidL3vUl ). All nodes are recommended to upgrade to the latest version.

See security advisory ? https://t.co/TFPj5jpxUD

– Cosmos – the Internet of Blockchains (@cosmos) May 30, 2019

As stated in Tendermint, two days ago the company discovered a bug in CosmosSDK, a solution for creating applications on the blockchain using the Golang programming language.

To eliminate the vulnerability, it was decided to conduct hardfork. Having secured a sufficient number of confirmations from validators, Tendermint carried out an upgrade of the network on block # 482100.

Service providers were advised to "immediately upgrade to the most recent and most secure version of CosmosSDK."

It is reported that the bug threatened the safety model of the chains in the Cosmos PoS system. In this case, the developers emphasize that the vulnerability did not allow to steal or create new ATOM tokens.

Tendermint promised to reveal the technical details of the bug in 7-10 business days.

Recall, the cross-platform blockchain-network Cosmos was launched in mid-March. Work on it was carried out over the past three years.

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