# CVE-2025-47285: Vyper's \`concat()\` builtin may elide side-effects for zero-length arguments

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2029, GHSA-QHR6-MGQR-MCHM
- Severity: CVSS 2.9 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-15 · Updated: 2025-05-15

## Affected

- vyperlang vyper: through 0.4.2rc1
- vyper (PyPI): through 0.4.2rc1

## Description

Vyper is the Pythonic Programming Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. In versions up to and including 0.4.2rc1, `concat()` may skip evaluation of side effects when the length of an argument is zero. This is due to a fastpath in the implementation which skips evaluation of argument expressions when their length is zero. In practice, it would be very unusual in user code to construct zero-length bytestrings using an expression with side-effects, since zero-length bytestrings are typically constructed with the empty literal `b""`; the only way to construct an empty bytestring which has side effects would be with the ternary operator introduced in v0.3.8, e.g. `b"" if self.do_some_side_effect() else b""`. The fix is available in pull request 4644 and expected to be part of the 0.4.2 release. As a workaround, don't have side effects in expressions which construct zero-length bytestrings.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/security/advisories/GHSA-qhr6-mgqr-mchm
- https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/pull/4644
- https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/68b68c4b30c5ef2f312b4674676170b8a6eaa316/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L560-L562

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