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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2024-22419

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The `concat` built-in can write over the bounds of the memory buffer that was allocated for it and thus overwrite existing valid data. The root cause is that the `build_IR` for `concat` doesn't properly adhere to the API of `copy` functions (for `>=0.3.2` the `copy_bytes` function). A contract search was performed, and no vulnerable contracts were found in production. The Buffer Overflow can result in the change of semantics of the contract. The overflow is length-dependent, and thus it might go unnoticed during contract testing. However, certainly, not all usages of concat will result in overwritten valid data as we require it to be in an internal function and close to the return statement where other memory allocations don't occur. Users are advised to update when possible. This vulnerability affects vyper package versions 0.3.2 through 0.3.10.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

Advisory Timeline

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