Vyper
CVE-2024-22419
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Buffer copy size validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Always validate buffer sizes before copy operations. Use bounded functions (strncpy, snprintf). Enable compiler protections.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 1 package in pypi
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Copy without Size Check (CWE-120), which allows attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory. 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. This issue has been addressed in 0.4.0. Affected products include: Vyperlang Vyper.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
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. This issue has been addressed in 0.4.0.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this v
Vyper is a pythonic Smart Contract Language for the ethereum virtual machine. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this v
Vyper is a pythonic Smart Contract Language for the ethereum virtual machine. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this v
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1),
Vyper is a Pythonic smart contract language for the Ethereum virtual machine. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this v
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely
Vyper is a Pythonic smart contract language for the Ethereum virtual machine. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulne
Vyper is a Pythonic smart contract language for the Ethereum virtual machine. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulne
Vyper is a pythonic smart contract language for the EVM. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the ethereum virtual machine. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulne
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the ethereum virtual machine. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulne
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