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CVE-2023-32059: Vyper vulnerable to incorrect ordering of arguments for kwargs passed to internal calls

May 12, 2023 (updated November 19, 2024)

Internal calls to internal functions with more than 1 default argument are compiled incorrectly. Depending on the number of arguments provided in the call, the defaults are added not right-to-left, but left-to-right. If the types are incompatible, typechecking is bypassed. In the bar() function in the following code, self.foo(13) is compiled to self.foo(13,12) instead of self.foo(13,1337).

@internal
def foo(a:uint256 = 12, b:uint256 = 1337):
pass

@internal
def bar():
self.foo(13)

note that at the time of publication, the ability to pass kwargs to internal functions is an undocumented feature that does not seem to be widely used.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-ph9x-4vc9-m39g
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/vyper/PYSEC-2023-79.yaml
  • github.com/vyperlang/vyper
  • github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/c3e68c302aa6e1429946473769dd1232145822ac
  • github.com/vyperlang/vyper/security/advisories/GHSA-ph9x-4vc9-m39g
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32059

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.3.8

Fixed versions

  • 0.3.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.3.8 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-683: Function Call With Incorrect Order of Arguments

Source file

pypi/vyper/CVE-2023-32059.yml

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