Seven ways in which the Owner and Proxy Admin can make users lose funds ("rug vectors")

Lines of code Vulnerability details The contest explicitly asks to analyze the contract for "Rug Vectors", so that is what this issue is about. note to reviewers This issue list maybe 7 different problems and recommends different fixes. I could have made seven separate issues for each, but it wou...

Users shouldn't be forced into a specific strategy (possible rug pull)

Handle harleythedog Vulnerability details Impact As already discussed in the previous Sherlock C4 contest here, it is best to mitigate rug pull possibilities even if the team is well intentioned, there is still the risk of being called out, and less users might interact with the project if the...

Researchers warn of new Rug Pull scam through fraudulent crypto tokens

By Deeba Ahmed Another day another Rug Pull scam that involves exploiting of smart contract vulnerability. Scammers are exploiting misconfigurations in… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researchers warn of new Rug Pull scam through fraudulent crypto tokens...

Hackers Creating Fraudulent Crypto Tokens as Part of 'Rug Pull' Scams

Misconfigurations in smart contracts are being exploited by scammers to create malicious cryptocurrency tokens with the goal of stealing funds from unsuspecting users. The instances of token fraud in the wild include hiding 99% fee functions and concealing backdoor routines, researchers from Chec...

A week in security (January 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ransomware attacks Finalsite, renders 8,000 school sites unreachable for days Patchwork APT caught in its own web Sophisticated phishing scheme spent years robbing authors of their unpublished work Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to...

$10m of funds goes missing in what appears to be a cryptocurrency rug-pull

There’s a lot of concern in the cryptocurrency realm at the moment. A yield farming platform "utilizing arbitrage to gain optimal yield with low risk" has gone AWOL. Site down, Twitter account deleted, no word from the team behind it explaining what happened. Worst of all, some $10 million worth ...

Timelock delay can be changed by without any delay

Handle 0x0x0x Vulnerability details Impact Delay can be changed without any delay. Therefore, it is possible to call functions from this contract in a single block by changing the delay. This creates a huge attack vector, since if governor private keys would be stolen, everything can be withdrawn...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Game Cryptocurrency Was a Scam

The Squid Game cryptocurrency was a complete scam: The SQUID cryptocurrency peaked at a price of $2,861 before plummeting to $0 around 5:40 a.m. ET., according to the website CoinMarketCap. This kind of theft, commonly called a "rug pull" by crypto investors, happens when the creators of the cryp...

Squid Game Crypto Scammers Rip Off Investors for Millions

Players in the Squid Game cryptocurrency market have been eliminated — at least their investment has — by what cryptocurrency watchers have called a classic “rug-pull” scam. When SQUID tokens were first released last week, they were valued at a paltry $0.01 but promised entry into a game with the...

Reentrancy in settleAuction(): malicious publisher can bypass index timelock mechanism, inject malicious index, and rug the basket

Handle kenzo Vulnerability details The settleAuction function calls withdrawBounty before setting auctionOngoing = false, thereby allowing reentrancy. Impact A malicious publisher can bypass the index timelock mechanism and publish new index which the basket's users won't have time to respond to...

onlyOwnerOrAssetManager can swap Yield Source in SwappableYieldSource at any time, immediately rugging all funds from old yield source

Handle GalloDaSballo Vulnerability details Impact The function swapYieldSource Can be called by the owner deployer / initializer or Asset Manager The function will take all funds from the old Yield Source, and transfer them to the new Yield source. Any contract that implement the function functio...

rug pull possible via SafetyWithdraw

Handle gpersoon Vulnerability details Impact The contract TracerPerpetualSwaps inherits from SafetyWithdraw, which means the function withdrawERC20Token is possible, This allows the projectowners to withdraw the ERC20 tokens from the contract, which can be seen as a rug pull Also the tvl variable...

streaming3.service.rug.nl XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-449317 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| streaming3.service.rug.nl Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Preventi...

SLES9: Security update for Red Carpet

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: rug libredcarpet-tools rcd-modules xmlrpc-c rcd red-carpet libredcarpet python-openssl libredcarpet-python rcd-modules-devel xmlrpc-c-devel rcd-devel For mor...

SLES9: Security update for Red Carpet

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: libsoup libredcarpet rug rcd-devel libredcarpet-python rcd rcd-modules-devel red-carpet rcd-modules libredcarpet-tools libsoup-devel More details may also be...

SLES9: Security update for Red Carpet

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: rug libredcarpet-tools rcd-modules xmlrpc-c rcd red-carpet libredcarpet python-openssl libredcarpet-python rcd-modules-devel xmlrpc-c-devel rcd-devel For mor...

SLES9: Security update for Red Carpet

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: libsoup libredcarpet rug rcd-devel libredcarpet-python rcd rcd-modules-devel red-carpet rcd-modules libredcarpet-tools libsoup-devel More details may also be...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : rug (rug-4084)

The wrappers scripts for the C program rug, zen-updater, zen-installer and zen-remover modified LDLIBRARYPATH and MONOGACPREFIX insecurely by potentially leaving a empty path in it same as '.'. This update fixes this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive te...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.tavakoli-rug.com

Security researcher Narcoticxs, has submitted on 25/09/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.tavakoli-rug.com, which at the time of submission ranked 0 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 01/10/2007. It is...

CVE-2006-2703

The CVE-2006-2703 entry concerns the RedCarpet command-line client (rug), where the SSL certificate verification is not performed by the client when connecting to a server. This weaknesses permits a MITM attacker to read traffic and potentially execute commands through the intercepted connection....