Buffer Overflow Affecting vyper package, versions [0,0.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-VYPER-6277566
  • published 27 Feb 2024
  • disclosed 26 Feb 2024
  • credit minaminao-osec

How to fix?

Upgrade vyper to version 0.4.0 or higher.

Overview

vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow due to the improper handling of excessively large values specified as the starting index for an array in _abi_decode. This can cause the read position to overflow, leading to the decoding of values outside the intended array bounds.

PoC


event Pwn:
    pass

@external
def f(x: Bytes[32 * 3]):
    a: Bytes[32] = b"foo"
    y: Bytes[32 * 3] = x

    decoded_y1: Bytes[32] = _abi_decode(y, Bytes[32])
    a = b"bar"
    decoded_y2: Bytes[32] = _abi_decode(y, Bytes[32])

    if decoded_y1 != decoded_y2:
        log Pwn()

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)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low