GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-4hwq-4cpm-8vmx Vyper's `extract32` can ready dirty memory

LOW Published 2024-02-26 Modified 2025-01-21 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-24564
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
vyper
Severity
Low
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-125
Reviewed
2024-02-26

Affected packages

• PyPI vyper: < 0.4.0 → fixed in 0.4.0

Description

Summary When using the built-in `extract32(b, start)`, if the `start` index provided has for side effect to update `b`, the byte array to extract `32` bytes from, it could be that some dirty memory is read and returned by `extract32`. As of v0.4.0 (specifically, commit https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/3d9c537142fb99b2672f21e2057f5f202cde194f), the compiler will panic instead of generating bytecode. Details Before evaluating `start`, the function `Extract32.build_IR` caches only: • The pointer in memory/storage to `b`: https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/10564dcc37756f3d3684b7a91fd8f4325a38c4d8/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L916-L918 • The length of `b`: https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/10564dcc37756f3d3684b7a91fd8f4325a38c4d8/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L920-L922 but do not cache the actual content of `b`. This means that if the evaluation of `start` changes `b`'s content and length, an outdated length will be used with the new content when extracting 32 bytes from `b`. PoC Calling the function `foo` of the following contract returns `b'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu\x00\x00789'` meaning that `extract32` accessed some dirty memory. ```Vyper var:Bytes[96] @internal def bar() -> uint256: self.var = b'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu' self.var = b'' return 3 @external def foo() -> bytes32: self.var = b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789' return extract32(self.var, self.bar(), output_type=bytes32) # returns b'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu\x00\x00789' ``` Impact For contracts that are affected, it means that calling `extract32` returns dirty memory bytes instead of some expected output.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-24564 Vyper is a pythonic Smart Contract Language for the ethereum virtual machine. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References