Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting vyper package, versions [,0.3.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-VYPER-5529833
  • published 12 May 2023
  • disclosed 12 May 2023
  • credit trocher

How to fix?

Upgrade vyper to version 0.3.8 or higher.

Overview

vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound due to a missing check on the upper bound in loops of the form for i in range(a, a + N). (In loops like for i in range(start, stop) and for i in range(stop), the compiler is able to raise a TypeMismatch when trying to overflow the variable.)

PoC

@external
def test() -> uint16:
    x:uint8 = 255
    a:uint8 = 0
    for i in range(x, x+2):
        a = i
    return convert(a,uint16)  # returns 256

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.5 high