CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-37902

Unchecked Return Value

Published: Jul 25, 2023 | Modified: Aug 03, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Vyper is a Pythonic programming language that targets the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Prior to version 0.3.10, the ecrecover precompile does not fill the output buffer if the signature does not verify. However, the ecrecover builtin will still return whatever is at memory location 0. This means that the if the compiler has been convinced to write to the 0 memory location with specially crafted data (generally, this can happen with a hashmap access or immutable read) just before the ecrecover, a signature check might pass on an invalid signature. Version 0.3.10 contains a patch for this issue.

Weakness

The product does not check the return value from a method or function, which can prevent it from detecting unexpected states and conditions.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vyper Vyperlang * 0.3.9 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References