Wrong estimation of acceptable risk of the protocol losses

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The protocol losses in case compromised MINTERS or REDEEMERS can be higher than expected due to the GATEKEEPER suppression. Attacker can frontrun the GATEKEEPER and fill block limit with own transactions while it is profitable. Average losses can be more...

Based on the functionality, if the releaseEscrow() function can be called by unauthorized entities, it can lead to potential misuse or unintended transfer of assets.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The absence of access control on the releaseEscrow function presents a significant security risk. As it currently stands, any external actor or contract can invoke this function, which may result in the unintended release of escrowed funds. This opens up...

Unauthorized Ownership Transfer and Asset Withdrawal Vulnerability in quitSystem Function

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The quitSystem function in the contract is vulnerable to unauthorized asset control. This vulnerability arises when an allowed user, rather than the owner, exploits their permissions to perform unauthorized actions. Specifically, the allowed user can...

How Is Machine Learning Used in Fraud Detection?

By Owais Sultan Machine learning is transforming fraud detection by swiftly identifying unusual patterns in data, helping prevent financial losses and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Is Machine Learning Used in Fraud Detection?...

Front-Running Vulnerability: Exploiting Reward Updates for Maximized Payouts

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Malicious users claim rewards at a higher rate than what was intended by front-running governance actions meant to reduce rewards. This allows them to claim rewards at a higher rate than what was intended, undermining the protocol's intended economic...

FBI Warns of Rising Trend of Dual Ransomware Attacks Targeting U.S. Companies

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning of a new trend of dual ransomware attacks targeting the same victims, at least since July 2023. "During these attacks, cyber threat actors deployed two different ransomware variants against victim companies from the following variants:...

Rouge ward can remove auth permission from other wards and then remove themselves

Lines of code Vulnerability details In a protocol, the deny function is used to remove the ward permissions from an address. This is actually a serious thing to consider that can actually occur, if a ward contract or account is obtained and other wards are not aware, the rogue ward can actually...

requestDeposit and requestRedeem do not allow for any price guarantee, opening users to sandwich attacks and other losses

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Request functions take only the desired input amount as a parameter, giving no way for the caller to control the fulfilment price. The price is decided by the Centrifuge mainnet only. function requestDeposituint256 assets, address owner; function...

Unchecked Arithmetic Allows Nonce Replay

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability details The problem is the unchecked increment operation: ++nonce.value;. When nonce.value is already at its maximum value 2^256 - 1, incrementing it will wrap around to zero due to integer overflow. This means that if an attacker sends a...

Price Manipulation Through Vulnerability in simulateRange Function

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The simulateRange function, although designed for simulation and testing purposes, could potentially be exploited in a sandwich attack scenario. A malicious actor could front-run a user's transaction by using a flash loan to manipulate the price,...

Lack of Deadline Protection in Key Functions Poses Potential Exploits

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The absence of a deadline parameter in key function calls within the EvolvingProteus contract poses a significant vulnerability. Transactions that stay pending in the mempool due to outdated slippage could be executed at a much later time than initially...

14 Suspected Cybercriminals Arrested Across Africa in Coordinated Crackdown

A coordinated law enforcement operation across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 suspected cybercriminals, INTERPOL announced Friday. The exercise, conducted in partnership with AFRIPOL, enabled investigators to identify 20,674 cyber networks that were linked to financial losses of...

Improper Authorization

chromium is vulnerable to Improper Authorization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to impersonate a trusted website and trick the user into performing actions such as revealing sensitive information or installing malware. This could have serious consequences for the victim, such as...

Improper Authorization

chromium is vulnerable to Improper Authorization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to impersonate a trusted website and trick the user into performing actions such as revealing sensitive information or installing malware. This could have serious consequences for the victim, such as...

Integer overflow in getDerivedPrice()

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact An integer overflow could cause the getDerivedPrice function to return an incorrect price. This could lead to financial losses for users of the contract. Proof of Concept Sure, I can generate a report with this information for all the bugs in the smart...

Unauthorized Admin Transfer Vulnerability

Lines of code Vulnerability details Description The bug in this contract is that it doesn't handle the case when the pendingAdmin is set to the zero address address0. As per the condition msg.sender == address0, the if statement can be bypassed if an attacker sets pendingAdmin to the zero address...

Unchecked Call Return Value of ERC20 Functions

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The return value of 'transfer' and 'transferFrom' should be verified since these two functions may only return false but not cause execution reverted once fail. If not properly handled, it might incur asset losses to users and the project party. Tools Us...

Ransomware making big money through "big game hunting"

Ransomware generates big money for the groups behind it, with new research confirming some of the scale of the problem. Chainalysis, a blockchain research firm, looked at data from monitored cryptocurrency wallets, concluding that around $449 million has been taken from victims in the last six...

Well.sol::swapFrom() Missing Fee-on-Transfer Token Check

Lines of code Vulnerability details Description The swapFrom in the Well.sol contract does not include a check for fee-on-transfer tokens, as specified in the Nespac. The comment states that the check for fee-on-transfer tokens is performed in the setReserves, but checks are not implemented in th...

Well.sol::addLiquidity() Unauthorized Liquidity Addition for Fee-on-Transfer Tokens

Lines of code Vulnerability details Description The addLiquidity in the Well.sol contract allows any address to add liquidity to tokens with a fee-on-transfer mechanism. Although there is a another function available to add liquidity for Fee-on-transfer token name addLiquidityFeeOnTransfer. Howev...