# CVE-2021-41121: Memory corruption in Vyper

- Also known as: GHSA-XV8X-PR4H-73JV, PYSEC-2021-365
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.3.0
- Published: 2021-10-06 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- vyperlang vyper: fixed in 0.3.0
- vyper (PyPI): fixed in 0.3.0

## Description

Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM. In affected versions when performing a function call inside a literal struct, there is a memory corruption issue that occurs because of an incorrect pointer to the the top of the stack. This issue has been resolved in version 0.3.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vyperlang vyper, vyper, upgrade to a fixed version (0.3.0) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/pull/2447
- https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/security/advisories/GHSA-xv8x-pr4h-73jv

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