PT-2022-24836 · Frontier · Frontier

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Frontier versions prior to commit d3beddc6911a559a3ecc9b3f08e153dbe37a8658 Description: The issue arises from the worst case weight always being accounted as the block weight for all cases, which can lead to block spamming attacks in case of...

Protocol can steal WETH founds

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The protocol can steal WETH founds with the refunds gas cost mechanism in the functions matchOneToOneOrders, matchOneToManyOrders and matchOrders This functions can call only by the MATCHEXECUTOR but we don't know what is this contract/address according...

Change of freeTrialLength, refundPenaltyBasisPoints and expirationDuration can cause unexpected results to users

Handle WatchPug Vulnerability details function getCancelAndRefundValue address keyOwner private view hasValidKeykeyOwner returns uint refund Key storage key = keyByOwnerkeyOwner; // Math: safeSub is not required since hasValidKey confirms timeRemaining is positive uint timeRemaining =...

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