vyperlang/vyper · Security
AugAssign evaluation order causing OOB write within the object in Vyper
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-4w26-8p97-f4jp
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-27105
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 2.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Vyper handles AugAssign statements by first caching the target location to avoid double evaluation. However, in the case when target is an access to a DynArray and the rhs modifies the array, the cached target will evaluate first, and the bounds check will not be re-evaluated during the write portion of the statement. In other words, the following code
def poc():
a: DynArray[uint256, 2] = [1, 2]
a[1] += a.pop()
is equivalent to:
def poc():
a: DynArray[uint256, 2] = [1, 2]
a[1] += a[len(a) - 1]
a.pop()
rather than:
def poc():
a: DynArray[uint256, 2] = [1, 2]
s: uint256 = a[1]
t: uint256 = a.pop()
a[1] = s + t # reverts due to oob access
CWEs
- CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write