CVE-2024-24560 LOW

CVE-2024-24560: Vyper external calls can overflow return data to return input buffer

Vendor Vyperlang
Product vyper
Weakness CWE-119
Published February 2, 2024
Last update August 1, 2024

CVSS base score

3.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. When calls to external contracts are made, we write the input buffer starting at byte 28, and allocate the return buffer to start at byte 0 (overlapping with the input buffer). When checking RETURNDATASIZE for dynamic types, the size is compared only to the minimum allowed size for that type, and not to the returned value's length. As a result, malformed return data can cause the contract to mistake data from the input buffer for returndata. When the called contract returns invalid ABIv2 encoded data, the calling contract can read different invalid data (from the dirty buffer) than the called contract returned.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 2, 2024 CVE published
August 1, 2024 Record updated