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CVE-2024-26149PYSEC-2024-164GHSA-9P8R-4XP4-GW5W

Vyper _abi_decode Memory Overflow

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.4.0b1, 0.4.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Vyper is a pythonic Smart Contract Language for the ethereum virtual machine. If an excessively large value is specified as the starting index for an array in `_abi_decode`, it can cause the read position to overflow. This results in the decoding of values outside the intended array bounds, potentially leading to exploitations in contracts that use arrays within `_abi_decode`. This vulnerability affects 0.3.10 and earlier versions.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • vyperlang vyper

    through 0.3.10

  • vyperPyPI

    fixed in 0.4.0b1

  • vyperPyPI

    fixed in 0.4.0

References 1

GitHub · vyperlang/vyper