auction-spotter.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3434654

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Upgraded Q -> 2 from #327 [1686724891862]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 327 as 2 risk. The relevant finding follows: L-04 addBid does not increment the endBlock of the auction when it is close to the end, preventing the protocol from capturing extra value When an Auction is created, it sets a lotItem.endBlock. This value remains...

Aunction DOS

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact All auction functions are under a potential DOS or exploitability vulnerability A 2 day duration is added to the current block.number when creating a lot. This introduces a critical flaw, Adding 2 86400correct value of 2 days / 27200wrong value used in...

A lot with a lots.sdAmount less than the bidIncrement cannot be bid on

Lines of code Vulnerability details M-01 A lot with a lots.sdAmount less than the bidIncrement cannot be bid on Impact Everyone can create a lot by calling Auction.createLot with any arbitrary amount they specify. However, creating a lot with a low sdAmount can result in two potential issues: Whe...

An oracle deprecation might lead the protocol to sell assets for a low price

Lines of code Vulnerability details During a Dutch Auction, if a user places a bid, the trade is settled in the same transaction. As part of this process, the backing manager tries to call the rebalance function again. The call to rebalance is wrapped in a try-catch block, if an error occurs and...

Attacker can frontrun user bid with wrong lotId and create the lot with that lotId, forcing the user to take a big loss

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact User takes a huge loss by getting 1 SD token, but bidding an amount possibly much bigger. Attackers are incetivized to perform this if they are ETHx holders and want to increase the value of their tokens. Proof of Concept When a user adds a bid to the...

Lender can prevent borrower from returning NFT

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The lender can prevent the borrower of his NFT from returning it, forcing him to pay interest for longer. Proof of Concept The borrower returns the NFT owed by calling repayWithNftlien, lienId, tokenId. This will then validateLienlien, lienId which check...

Lender can auction the loan without any restriction to cause losses to the borrower

Lines of code Vulnerability details Lender can auction the loan without any restriction to cause losses to the borrower Impact The lender can unilaterally decide to auction a loan at any time, without any restriction. The process can be started by calling startLoanAuction and offers to repay the...

Lender can front-run calls to auctionBuyNft() to DoS auctions

Lines of code Vulnerability details Lender can front-run calls to auctionBuyNft to DoS auctions Lenders can DoS auction offers by resetting the auction process. Impact The Particle protocol allows lenders to auction their loans in case any interested party wants to repay the NFT of the loan. The...

Attacker can spam addCredit() function to cause a denial-of-service during an auction

Lines of code Vulnerability details The ParticleExchange contract does not store any data about the lien in the contract storage. Instead, users must send the entire Lien struct when interacting with any existing lien, and the contract checks if the hash of the struct is correct. This poses a...

ParticleExchange.auctionBuyNft and ParticleExchange.withdrawEthWithInterest function calls can be DOS'ed

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact When lien.borrower is a contract, its receive function can be coded to conditionally revert based on a state boolean variable controlled by lien.borrower's owner. As long as payback 0 is true, lien.borrower's receive function would be called when calling...

Borrower can block being defaulted or auctioned

Lines of code Vulnerability details Borrower can block being defaulted or auctioned The borrower can potentially block the liquidation and auction processed by using a contract and reverting on ETH transfers. Impact When a loan is being liquidated or auctioned, any credit still available to the...

addCredit() impacts the price curve of loan auctions

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The price curve of a loan auction is supposed to depend only on block.timestamp, meaning that the price increases as time goes on. However, the addCredit function allows anyone to change or increase the value of lien.credit. If lien.credit is increased,...

Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones

Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them erased, a practice that can lead to crime victims being re-victimized, a new study found. In response, the largest online marketplace for...

Malicious actor can win auction unfavorably to the protocol by block stuffing

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details When protocol’s bad debt is auctioned off with 10% incentive at the beginning. A user who gives the best bid, wins. The auction ends when at least one account placed a bid, and current block number is bigger than nextBidderBlockLimit:...

PLACEBID() IN SHORTFALL.SOL MAY LEAD TO DENIAL OF SERVICE AND FRONT RUNNING ATTACKS

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The Shortfall.placeBid function in the Venus protocol exhibits potential vulnerabilities that may lead to denial-of-service DoS and front-running attacks. A malicious actor could exploit these vulnerabilities to disrupt the auction process, manipulate...

Shortfall.sol#placeBid does not limit the bid spread

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Shortfall.solplaceBid does not limit the bid spread. The attacker can increase the price by a small amount each time causing the auction to never stop. Proof of Concept Tools Used manual Recommended Mitigation Steps limit the bid spread Assessed type DoS...

Bad debt bidders’ funds are locked forever when Shortfall address is changed during ongoing debt auction

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details When the protocol accrues bad debt, it can be auctioned off to anyone who is willing to pay. Each user wanting to participate in the auction has to lock their bid in Shortfall contract: function placeBidaddress comptroller, uint256 bidBps...

USDC blacklisted accounts can DOS the bidding system in Shortfall

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Shortfall contract is used to clear off any pool bad debt via auction. If the debt reached its mimimum value, anybody can start off the auction and place the bid. Attacker can bid with tokene.g. USDC, USDT that have a contract level admin controlled...

Precision differences when calculating the _startAuction of funds accumulated in RiskFund

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact When calculating startAuction uint256 usdValue in RiskFund, Auction state divides the value of each market in the vToken list in token list precision. This skew is fine for most tokens but will cause problems with certain token pairs. Proof of Concept Wh...