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October 28, 2024

Build secure Uniswap V4 Hooks in AVS

In recent months, both Uniswap V4 and EigenLayer’s Actively Validated Services (AVS) have gained significant attention – not without reason. Uniswap V4 introduced a […]

Damian Rusinek

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Renzo – Enabling stETH deposits causes miscalculations and permanent losses for users as rebase tokens are not supported

Loss of capital of users who withdraw stETH. Their LST rewards will be miscalculated. Vulnerability Details The general questions section in the readme.md states […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Renzo – users will suffer from other projects LST price fluctuations

Holders of wBETH and other tokens that will be accepted by Renzo can compensate for their losses resulting from price drop (e.g. slashing) using […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Mento – Voting power remains despite withdrawal

Full withdrawals do not decrease user voting power when the Locking contract is stopped. Vulnerability Details Under specific conditions, the owner may stop the […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Tapioca – OFT can be impersonated through _lzCompose with multiple compose messages

This vulnerability allows anyone to make a cross-chain calls with multiple compose messages, and execute the messages (all except the first one) as the […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Tapioca – Nesting remote transfer messages to steal tokens

The user can use a nested MSG_REMOTE_TRANSFER message in a valid MSG_REMOTE_TRANSFER to execute back the remote transfer as the owner of tokens (stealing […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Tapioca – Unprotected executeModule function allows to steal the tokens

The executeModule function allows anyone to execute any module with any params. That allows attacker to execute operations on behalf of other users. Vulnerability […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Tapioca – Unverified _srcChainSender parameter allows to impersonate the sender

The function executes modules depending on the _msgType parameter and some of them do not accept the _srcChainSender parameter. Vulnerability Details The _toeComposeReceiver function is called […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Best ways to secure your X account

Learn how to effectively protect your X account. Do not let hackers take control. Why is it worth taking care of it? Security is […]

Paweł Kuryłowicz

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

Uniswap V4: Bad hook with broken access control

The threat scenario covered in this article is “attacker calls hooks directly on the hook contract”. The example illustrating such a vulnerability was based on […]

Damian Rusinek

Managing Partner & Smart Contract Security Auditor

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