Navigating Cybersecurity Risks in Crypto-Backed Lending

As crypto-backed lending gathers momentum among institutions and everyday users, cybersecurity shadows every new transaction. Billions in digital…...

Wrapless: the Trustless Lending Protocol on Top of Bitcoin

This paper presents Wrapless -- a lending protocol that enables the collateralization of bitcoins without requiring a trusted wrapping mechanism. The protocol facilitates a "loan channel" on the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing bitcoins to be locked as collateral for loans issued on any blockchain th...

A Theory of Lending Protocols in DeFi

Lending protocols are one of the main applications of Decentralized Finance DeFi, enabling crypto-assets loan markets with a total value estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. Unlike traditional lending systems, these protocols operate without relying on trusted authorities or off-chain...

A Quantitative Notion of Economic Security for Smart Contract Compositions

Decentralized applications are often composed of multiple interconnected smart contracts. This is especially evident in DeFi, where protocols are heavily intertwined and rely on a variety of basic building blocks such as tokens, decentralized exchanges and lending protocols. A crucial security...

CVE-2020-14894

Vulnerability in the Oracle Banking Corporate Lending product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.3.0 and 14.0.0-14.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2020-2719

Vulnerability in the Oracle Banking Corporate Lending product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.3.0-12.4.0 and 14.0.0-14.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...

Malicious code in sui-lending-protocol (npm)

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MAL-2025-2528 Malicious code in sui-lending-protocol (npm)

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Predatory app downloaded 100,000 times from Google Play Store steals data, uses it for blackmail

A malicious app claiming to be a financial management tool has been downloaded 100,000 times from the Google Play Store. The app— known as “Finance Simplified”—belongs to the SpyLoan family which specializes in predatory lending. Sometimes malware creators manage to get their apps listed in the...

CVE-2020-2718

Vulnerability in the Oracle Banking Corporate Lending product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.3.0-12.4.0 and 14.0.0-14.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...

python_book 安全漏洞

pythonbook is an online book lending website, book management system by Tim Green, an individual developer. A security vulnerability exists in pythonbook V1.0, which is caused by an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the user avatar upload function...

Malicious code in lending-vault (npm)

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MAL-2024-9097 Malicious code in lending-vault (npm)

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update_market() market weight incorrect

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability details in updatemarket We need to get the weight percentage of the corresponding market epoch through gaugeController Then allocate cantoPerBlockepoch according to the percentage The main logic code is as follows: function updatemarketaddress...

secRewardsPerShare Insufficient precision

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability details we also introduced the field secRewardDebt. The idea of this field is to enable any lending platforms that are integrated with Neofinance Coordinator to send their own rewards based on this value or rather the difference of this value sinc...

Attacker can extract value from pool by sandwiching herself at swapAll during close

Lines of code Vulnerability details Attacker can drain the lending pool by leveraging two facts: 1. swapAll allows 1% slippage 2. There is no Health Factor check after close. Alice and Bob are good friends, the steps are in one single tx: 1. Alice deposits 10000 USDT and borrows 7000$ worth of TR...

No need to stack lend pool to take lendlaunger rewards

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Lending lenger give reward tokens to users if they lend their tokens to selected pools. Lendingledger give rewards as weekly and it records user's balance until end of the weekespacially thursday because 1 jan 1970 was thursday. But protocol records can ...

receive function allows any user to lose funds

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Lending ledger receive function allows for any user to send funds and lose them forever. Proof of Concept Any user that sends funds to the Lending Ledger contract through the receive function, can't withdraw their funds meaning they would be stuck in...

User can claim most of the rewards for a lending market by depositing cNote for just 2 blocks / epoch

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact For a user to receive rewards for supplying cNote in a lending market LM, he only needs to have supplied the cNote at the end of an epoch. Users staking for the whole duration of an epoch get 0 benefits, compared to users who supply only at the end of th...

Threatening rogue finance apps removed from the Apple Store

Multiple apps have been removed from the App Store in India after a large helping of unethical behaviour was aimed at their users. TechCrunch reports that "Pocket Kash, White Kash, Golden Kash, and OK Rupee" among others were taken down after getting close to the top 20 finance app listing spots...