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CVE-2023-42443
September 18, 2023
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). In version 0.3.9 and prior, under certain conditions, the memory used by the builtins "raw_call", "create_from_blueprint" and "create_copy_of" can be corrupted. For "raw_call", the argument buffer of the call can be corrupted, leading to incorrect "calldata" in the sub-context. For "create_from_blueprint" and "create_copy_of", the buffer for the to-be-deployed bytecode can be corrupted, leading to deploying incorrect bytecode. Each builtin has conditions that must be fulfilled for the corruption to happen. For "raw_call", the "data" argument of the builtin must be "msg.data" and the "value" or "gas" passed to the builtin must be some complex expression that results in writing to the memory. For "create_copy_of", the "value" or "salt" passed to the builtin must be some complex expression that results in writing to the memory. For "create_from_blueprint", either no constructor parameters should be passed to the builtin or "raw_args" should be set to True, and the "value" or "salt" passed to the builtin must be some complex expression that results in writing to the memory. As of time of publication, no patched version exists. The issue is still being investigated, and there might be other cases where the corruption might happen. When the builtin is being called from an "internal" function "F", the issue is not present provided that the function calling "F" wrote to memory before calling "F". As a workaround, the complex expressions that are being passed as kwargs to the builtin should be cached in memory prior to the call to the builtin.
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
9.2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Out-of-bounds Write
EPSS
Base Score:
0.22