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Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVE-2018-11446

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

The buy function of a smart contract implementation for Gold Reward (GRX), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the buyer because of overflow of the multiplication of its argument amount and a manipulable variable buyPrice, aka the "tradeTrap" issue.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The software performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published