Vyper: reversed order of side effects for some operations
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language. For the following (probably non-exhaustive) list of expressions, the compiler evaluates the arguments from right to left instead of left to right. `unsafe_add, unsafe_sub, unsafe_mul, unsafe_div, pow_mod256, |, &, ^ (bitwise operators), bitwise_or (deprecated), bitwise_and (deprecated), bitwise_xor (deprecated), raw_call, <, >, <=, >=, ==, !=, in, not in (when lhs and rhs are enums)`. This behaviour becomes a problem when the evaluation of one of the arguments produces side effects that other arguments depend on. The following expressions can produce side-effect: state modifying external call , state modifying internal call, `raw_call`, `pop()` when used on a Dynamic Array stored in the storage, `create_minimal_proxy_to`, `create_copy_of`, `create_from_blueprint`. This issue has not yet been patched. Users are advised to make sure that the arguments of the expression do not produce side effects or, if one does, that no other argument is dependent on those side effects.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vyperlang | vyper | up to 0.4.0 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | vyper (PyPI) | up to 0.4.2 | — | No fix listed | GHSA-g2xh-c426-v8mf |
- vyper Vendorvyperlang Affected up to 0.4.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- vyper (PyPI) Vendor— Affected up to 0.4.2 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-g2xh-c426-v8mf
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-40015
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g2xh-c426-v8mf
References
More vyperlang Vyper vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-16182 Vyper bounds check on built-in `slice()` function can be overflowed CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-14992 concat built-in can corrupt memory in vyper CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-16184 Vyper array negative index vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-08657 Integer bounds error in Vyper CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-11796 Multiple evaluation of contract address in call in vyper CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2024-21531 vyper performs double eval of the argument of sqrt CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2023-40015 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-40015 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g2xh-c426-v8mf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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