VyperApplication · Vyperlang

CVE-2025-27104

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-02-21
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 0.4.1 or later.
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84/100
Remediation priority · High
Public exploit Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

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NVD · unedited
vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM. Multiple evaluation of a single expression is possible in the iterator target of a for loop. While the iterator expression cannot produce multiple writes, it can consume side effects produced in the loop body (e.g. read a storage variable updated in the loop body) and thus lead to unexpected program behavior. Specifically, reads in iterators which contain an ifexp (e.g. `for s: uint256 in ([read(), read()] if True else [])`) may interleave reads with writes in the loop body. Vyper for loops allow two kinds of iterator targets, namely the `range()` builtin and an iterable type, like SArray and DArray. During codegen, iterable lists are required to not produce any side-effects (in the following code, `range_scope` forces `iter_list` to be parsed in a constant context, which is checked against `is_constant`). However, this does not prevent the iterator from consuming side effects provided by the body of the loop. For SArrays on the other hand, `iter_list` is instantiated in the body of a `repeat` ir, so it can be evaluated several times. This issue is being addressed and is expected to be available in version 0.4.1. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as the patched release is available. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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NVD · CPE data
VyperApplication
Affected:< 0.4.1

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 0.4.1 or later
Fixed in 0.4.1
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

0.4.1

  1. Upgrade Vyper to version 0.4.1 or later
  2. Verify that smart contracts using for loops with iterable types (SArray, DArray) containing ifexp in the iterator still compile correctly
  3. Rebuild and redeploy any affected smart contracts to the EVM

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