Deadlock Affecting vyper package, versions [0.2.9,0.3.10rc4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-VYPER-5905483
  • published 19 Sep 2023
  • disclosed 18 Sep 2023
  • credit trocher

How to fix?

Upgrade vyper to version 0.3.10rc4 or higher.

Overview

vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deadlock via the @nonreentrant("") or @nonreentrant('') lock types that do not produce reentrancy checks at runtime. This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass reentrancy checks when executing the affected functions.

Workaround

The lock name should be a non-empty string.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

5.3 medium