Headline
GHSA-ppx5-q359-pvwj: vyper's range(start, start + N) reverts for negative numbers
Summary
When looping over a range of the form range(start, start + N), if start is negative, the execution will always revert.
Details
This issue is caused by an incorrect assertion inserted by the code generation of the range (stmt.parse_For_range()):
https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/9136169468f317a53b4e7448389aa315f90b95ba/vyper/codegen/stmt.py#L286-L287
This assertion was introduced in https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/3de1415ee77a9244eb04bdb695e249d3ec9ed868 to fix https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6r8q-pfpv-7cgj. The issue arises when start is signed, instead of using sle, le is used and start is interpreted as an unsigned integer for the comparison. If it is a negative number, its 255th bit is set to 1 and is hence interpreted as a very large unsigned integer making the assertion always fail.
PoC
@external
def foo():
x:int256 = min_value(int256)
# revert when it should not since we have the following assertion that fails:
# [assert, [le, min_value(int256), max_value(int256) + 1 - 10]],
for i in range(x, x + 10):
pass
Patches
patched in v0.4.0, specifically, https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/pull/3679 disallows this form of range().
Impact
Any contract having a range(start, start + N) where start is a signed integer with the possibility for start to be negative is affected. If a call goes through the loop while supplying a negative start the execution will revert.
Summary
When looping over a range of the form range(start, start + N), if start is negative, the execution will always revert.
Details
This issue is caused by an incorrect assertion inserted by the code generation of the range (stmt.parse_For_range()):
https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/9136169468f317a53b4e7448389aa315f90b95ba/vyper/codegen/stmt.py#L286-L287
This assertion was introduced in vyperlang/vyper@3de1415 to fix GHSA-6r8q-pfpv-7cgj. The issue arises when start is signed, instead of using sle, le is used and start is interpreted as an unsigned integer for the comparison. If it is a negative number, its 255th bit is set to 1 and is hence interpreted as a very large unsigned integer making the assertion always fail.
PoC
@external def foo(): x:int256 = min_value(int256) # revert when it should not since we have the following assertion that fails: # [assert, [le, min_value(int256), max_value(int256) + 1 - 10]], for i in range(x, x + 10): pass
Patches
patched in v0.4.0, specifically, vyperlang/vyper#3679 disallows this form of range().
Impact
Any contract having a range(start, start + N) where start is a signed integer with the possibility for start to be negative is affected. If a call goes through the loop while supplying a negative start the execution will revert.
References
- GHSA-ppx5-q359-pvwj
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32481
- vyperlang/vyper@3de1415
- vyperlang/vyper@5319cfb
- https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/9136169468f317a53b4e7448389aa315f90b95ba/vyper/codegen/stmt.py#L286-L287