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Vyper's nonpayable default functions are sometimes payable

GHSA-vxmm-cwh2-q762 · CVE-2023-32675 · PYSEC-2023-80

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Description

Impact

in contracts with at least one regular nonpayable function, due to the callvalue check being inside of the selector section, it is possible to send funds to the default function by using less than 4 bytes of calldata, even if the default function is marked nonpayable. this applies to contracts compiled with vyper<=0.3.7.

# @version 0.3.7

# implicitly nonpayable
@external
def foo() -> uint256:
    return 1

# implicitly nonpayable
@external
def __default__():
    # could receive ether here
    pass

Patches

this was fixed by the removal of the global calldatasize check in https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/02339dfda0f3caabad142060d511d10bfe93c520.

Workarounds

don't use nonpayable default functions

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