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vyper performs incorrect topic logging in raw_log

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 25, 2024 in vyperlang/vyper

Package

pip vyper (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.3.10

Patched versions

None

Description

Summary

Incorrect values can be logged when raw_log builtin is called with memory or storage arguments to be used as topics.

A contract search was performed and no vulnerable contracts were found in production. In particular, no uses of raw_log() were found at all in production; it is apparently not a well-known function.

Details

The build_IR function of the RawLog class fails to properly unwrap the variables provided as topics. Consequently, incorrect values are logged as topics.

PoC

x: bytes32

@external
def f():
    self.x = 0x1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
    raw_log([self.x], b"") # LOG1(offset:0x60, size:0x00, topic1:0x00)

    y: bytes32 = 0x1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
    raw_log([y], b"") # LOG1(offset:0x80, size:0x00, topic1:0x40)

Impact

Incorrect values can be logged which may result in unexpected behavior in client-side applications relying on these logs.

References

@charles-cooper charles-cooper published to vyperlang/vyper Apr 25, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 25, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 25, 2024
Reviewed Apr 25, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-32645

GHSA ID

GHSA-xchq-w5r3-4wg3

Source code

Credits

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