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CVE-2024-24564

LOW
Published 2024-02-26T20:16:13.604Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
3.7
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.004
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.4% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.567
Higher than 56.7% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE

Description

Vyper is a pythonic Smart Contract Language for the ethereum virtual machine. When using the built-in `extract32(b, start)`, if the `start` index provided has for side effect to update `b`, the byte array to extract `32` bytes from, it could be that some dirty memory is read and returned by `extract32`. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.4.0.

Understanding This Vulnerability

This Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entry provides detailed information about a security vulnerability that has been publicly disclosed. CVEs are standardized identifiers assigned by MITRE Corporation to track and catalog security vulnerabilities across software and hardware products.

The severity rating (LOW) indicates the potential impact of this vulnerability based on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) framework. Higher severity ratings typically indicate vulnerabilities that could lead to more significant security breaches if exploited. Security teams should prioritize remediation efforts based on severity, exploit availability, and the EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) score, which predicts the likelihood of exploitation in the wild.

If this vulnerability affects products or systems in your infrastructure, we recommend reviewing the affected products section, checking for available patches or updates from vendors, and implementing recommended workarounds or solutions until a permanent fix is available. Organizations should also monitor security advisories and threat intelligence feeds for updates about active exploitation of this vulnerability.

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Affected Products

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References

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed LOW

Vyper's `extract32` can ready dirty memory

GHSA-4hwq-4cpm-8vmx

Advisory Details

### Summary When using the built-in `extract32(b, start)`, if the `start` index provided has for side effect to update `b`, the byte array to extract `32` bytes from, it could be that some dirty memory is read and returned by `extract32`. As of v0.4.0 (specifically, commit https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/3d9c537142fb99b2672f21e2057f5f202cde194f), the compiler will panic instead of generating bytecode. ### Details Before evaluating `start`, the function `Extract32.build_IR` caches only: - The pointer in memory/storage to `b`: https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/10564dcc37756f3d3684b7a91fd8f4325a38c4d8/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L916-L918 - The length of `b`: https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/10564dcc37756f3d3684b7a91fd8f4325a38c4d8/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L920-L922 but do not cache the actual content of `b`. This means that if the evaluation of `start` changes `b`'s content and length, an outdated length will be used with the new content when extracting 32 bytes from `b`. ### PoC Calling the function `foo` of the following contract returns `b'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu\x00\x00789'` meaning that `extract32` accessed some dirty memory. ```Vyper var:Bytes[96] @internal def bar() -> uint256: self.var = b'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu' self.var = b'' return 3 @external def foo() -> bytes32: self.var = b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789' return extract32(self.var, self.bar(), output_type=bytes32) # returns b'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu\x00\x00789' ``` ### Impact For contracts that are affected, it means that calling `extract32` returns dirty memory bytes instead of some expected output.

Affected Packages

PyPI vyper
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <0.4.0

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

2.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: February 26, 2024, Modified: January 21, 2025

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Published: 2024-02-26T20:16:13.604Z
Last Modified: 2024-10-25T20:33:03.845Z
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