Zokyo Auditing Tutorials
  • 🔐Zokyo Auditing Tutorials
  • 📚Tutorials
    • 🏃Tutorial 1: Front-Running
      • 🚀Prerequisites
      • 📘Understanding Front-Running
      • 👓Examples
      • ⚒️Mitigation Steps
      • 🏦Resource Bank to more front running examples
      • 🤝Front-Running Conclusion
    • 🧱Tutorial 2: Unsafe Casting
      • 🚀Prerequisites
      • 📘Understanding Casting
      • 👓Examples
      • 🤝Unsafe Casting Conclusion
    • 👍Tutorial 3: Approvals and Safe Approvals
      • 🚀Prerequisites
      • 📘Understanding Approvals
      • 👓Vulnerability Examples
        • 🔁ERC20 Approval Reset Requirement
        • 😴Ignoring Return Values from ERC20 approve() Function: Potential Miscount of Successful Approvals
        • 🚫Improper use of Open Zeppelins safeApprove() for Non-zero Allowance Increments
        • 🥾Omitted Approval for Contract Interactions Within a Protocol
        • 🤦‍♂️Failing to Reset Token Approvals in Case of Failed Transactions or other actions
        • 💭Miscellaneous
        • ERC20 Approve Race Condition Vulnerability
      • ⚒️Spot the Vulnerability
      • 🤝Approvals and Safe Approvals Conclusion
    • ⛓️Tutorial 4: Block.chainid, DOMAIN_SEPARATOR and EIP-2612 permit
      • 🚀Prerequisites
      • 📘Understanding Block.chainid and DOMAIN_SEPARATOR
      • 👓Examples
      • ⚒️General Mitigation Steps
      • 🤝Tutorial 4 Conclusion
  • 💰Tutorial 5: Fee-On-Transfer Tokens
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Fee-On-Transfer
    • 👓Examples
    • 📘Links to more fee-on-transfer vulnerability examples
    • 🤝Fee-On-Transfer Tokens: Conclusion
  • 🌴Tutorial 6: Merkle Trees
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Merkle Trees
    • 🔎Verification within a Merkle Tree:
    • 📜Merkle Proofs Within Smart Contracts
    • 🖋️Merkle Proof Solidity Implementation
    • 🛑Vulnerabilities When Using Merkle Trees
    • 💀Example Vulnerabilities
    • 🧠Exercise
    • 🤝Merkle Trees Conclusion
  • 🌳Tutorial 7: Merkle-Patricia Trees
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Merkle-Patricia Trees
    • 📕Understanding Merkle-Patrica Trees pt.2
    • 🔎Verification within a Merkle-Patricia Tree
    • 🛑Vulnerabilities When Using Merkle-Patricia Trees
    • 💀Example Vulnerability
    • 🤝Merkle-Patricia Trees: Conclusion
  • 🔁Tutorial 8: Reentrancy
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Reentrancy
    • ⚒️Mitigation
    • 💀The DAO Hack: An In-depth Examination
    • 👓Examples
    • 🏦Resource Bank To More Reentrancy Examples
    • 🤝Conclusion: Reflecting on the Reentrancy Vulnerability
  • 🔂Tutorial 9: Read-Only Reentrancy
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Read-Only Reentrancy
    • 🔨Mitigating Read-Only Reentrancy
    • 👓Real World Examples
    • 🏦Resource Bank To More Reentrancy Examples
    • 🤝Read-Only Reentrancy: Conclusion
  • 🚆Tutorial 10: ERC20 transfer() and safeTransfer()
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding ERC20 transfer() and safeTransfer()
    • 👓Examples
    • 🤝Conclusion
  • 📞Tutorial 11: Low level .call(), .transfer() and .send()
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding .call, .transfer, and .send
    • 🛑Understanding the Vulnerabilities of .transfer and .send
    • 👓Examples
    • 🤝Low level .call(), .transfer() and .send() conclusion
  • ☎️Tutorial 12: Delegatecall Vulnerabilities in Precompiled Contracts
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📳Understanding Delegatecall
    • ⛰️EVM, L2s, Bridges, and the Quest for Scalability
    • 🏗️Understanding Precompiles in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
    • 💻Custom Precompiles
    • 💀Potential Vulnerabilities in EVM Implementations: Overlooked DelegateCall in Precompiled Contracts
    • 👓Real World Examples
    • 🤝Delegatecall and Precompiles: Conclusion
  • 🌊Tutorial 13: Liquid Staking
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Liquid Staking
    • 💀Understanding Liquid Staking Vulnerabilities
    • 🛑Example Vulnerability
    • 🐜Example Vulnerability 2
    • 🕷️Example Vulnerability 3
    • 🤝Liquid Staking: Conclusion
  • 🚿Tutorial 14: Slippage
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Slippage in Automated Market Makers (AMMs)
    • 💀Understanding the "Lack of Slippage Check" Vulnerability in Automated Market Makers (AMMs) and DEXs
    • 😡On-Chain Slippage Calculations Vulnerability
    • 📛0 slippage tolerance vulnerability
    • 👓Real World Examples
    • 🏦Resource bank to more slippage vulnerabilities
    • 🤝Slippage Conclusion
  • 📉Tutorial 15: Oracles
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📘Understanding Oracles
    • 📈Types of price feeds
    • 😡Flash Loans
    • 💀Understanding Oracle Vulnerabilities
      • ⛓️The Danger of Single Oracle Dependence
      • ⬇️Using Deprecated Functions
      • ❌Lack of return data validation
      • 🕐Inconsistent or Absent Price Data Fetching/Updating Intervals
    • 🔫Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Price Oracles Vulnerabilities
    • 🛑Found Vulnerabilities In Oracle Implementations
      • ⚖️Newly Registered Assets Skew Consultation Results
      • ⚡Flash-Loan Oracle Manipulations
      • ⛓️Relying Only On Chainlink: PriceOracle Does Not Filter Price Feed Outliers
      • ✍️Not Validating Return Data e.g Chainlink: (lastestRoundData)
      • 🗯️Chainlink: Using latestAnswer instead of latestRoundData
      • 😭Reliance On Fetching Oracle Functionality
      • 🎱Wrong Assumption of 18 decimals
      • 🧀Stale Prices
      • 0️⃣Oracle Price Returning 0
      • 🛶TWAP Oracles
      • 😖Wrong Token Order In Return Value
      • 🏗️miscellaneous
    • 🤝Oracles: Conclusion
  • 🧠Tutorial 16: Zero Knowledge (ZK)
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📚Theory
      • 🔌Circom
      • 💻Computation
      • 🛤️Arithmetic Circuits
      • 🚧Rank-1 Constraint System (R1CS)
      • ➗Quadratic Arithmetic Program
      • ✏️Linear Interactive Proof
      • ✨ZK-Snarks
    • 🤓Definitions and Essentials
      • 🔑Key
      • 😎Scalar Field Order
      • 🌳Incremental Merkle Tree
      • ✒️ECDSA signature
      • 📨Non-Interactive Proofs
      • 🏝️Fiat-Shamir transformation (or Fiat-Shamir heuristic)
      • 🪶Pedersen commitment
    • 💀Common Vulnerabilities in ZK Code
      • ⛓️Under-constrained Circuits
      • ❗Nondeterministic Circuits
      • 🌊Arithmetic Over/Under Flows
      • 🍂Mismatching Bit Lengths
      • 🌪️Unused Public Inputs Optimized Out
      • 🥶Frozen Heart: Forging of Zero Knowledge Proofs
      • 🚰Trusted Setup Leak
      • ⛔Assigned but not Constrained
    • 🐛Bugs In The Wild
      • 🌳Dark Forest v0.3: Missing Bit Length Check
      • 🔢BigInt: Missing Bit Length Check
      • 🚓Circom-Pairing: Missing Output Check Constraint
      • 🏹Semaphore: Missing Smart Contract Range Check
      • 🔫Zk-Kit: Missing Smart Contract Range Check
      • 🤖Aztec 2.0: Missing Bit Length Check / Nondeterministic Nullifier
      • ⏸️Aztec Plonk Verifier: 0 Bug
      • 🪂0xPARC StealthDrop: Nondeterministic Nullifier
      • 😨a16z ZkDrops: Missing Nullifier Range Check
      • 🤫MACI 1.0: Under-constrained Circuit
      • ❄️Bulletproofs Paper: Frozen Heart
      • 🏔️PlonK: Frozen Heart
      • 💤Zcash: Trusted Setup Leak
      • 🚨14. MiMC Hash: Assigned but not Constrained
      • 🚔PSE & Scroll zkEVM: Missing Overflow Constraint
      • ➡️PSE & Scroll zkEVM: Missing Constraint
      • 🤨Dusk Network: Missing Blinding Factors
      • 🌃EY Nightfall: Missing Nullifier Range Check
      • 🎆Summa: Unconstrained Constants Assignemnt
      • 📌Polygon zkEVM: Missing Remainder Constraint
    • 💿ZK Security Resources
  • 🤝Tutorial 17 DEX's (Decentralized Exchanges)
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📚Understanding Decentralized Exchanges
    • 💀Common Vulnerabilities in DEX Code
      • 🔎The "Lack of Slippage Check" Vulnerability in Automated Market Makers (AMMs) a
      • 😡On-Chain Slippage Calculations Vulnerability
      • 📛Slippage tolerance vulnerability
      • 😵How Pool Implementation Mismatches Pose a Security Risk to Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs)
      • 🏊‍♂️Vulnerabilities in Initial Pool Creation - Liquidity Manipulation Attacks
      • 🛑Vulnerabilities In Oracle Implementations
        • ⚖️Newly Registered Assets Skew Consultation Results
        • ⚡Flash-Loan Oracle Manipulations
        • ⛓️Relying Only On Chainlink: PriceOracle Does Not Filter Price Feed Outliers
        • ✍️Not Validating Return Data e.g Chainlink: (lastestRoundData)
        • 🗯️Chainlink: Using latestAnswer instead of latestRoundData
        • 😭Reliance On Fetching Oracle Functionality
        • 🎱Wrong Assumption of 18 decimals
        • 🧀Stale Prices
        • 0️⃣Oracle Price Returning 0
        • 🛶TWAP Oracles
        • 😖Wrong Token Order In Return Value
        • 🏗️miscellaneous
      • 🥶Minting and Burning Liquidity Pool Tokens
      • 🎫Missing Checks
      • 🔞18 Decimal Assumption
        • 📌Understanding ERC20 Decimals
        • 💀Examples Of Vulnerabilities To Do With Assuming 18 Decimals
      • 🛣️Incorrect Swap Path
      • The Importance of Deadline Checks in Swaps
    • 🤝Conclusion
  • 🤖Tutorial 18: Proxies
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📥Ethereum Storage and Memory
    • 📲Ethereum Calls and Delegate Calls
    • 💪Upgradability Patterns in Ethereum: Enhancing Smart Contracts Over Time
    • 🔝Proxy Upgrade Pattern in Ethereum
    • 🌀Exploring the Landscape of Ethereum Proxies
      • 🪞Transparent Proxies
      • ⬆️UUPS Proxies
      • 💡Beacon Proxies
      • 💎Diamond Proxies
  • 🔞Tutorial 19: 18 Decimal Assumption
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 📌Understanding ERC20 Decimals
    • 💀Examples Of Vulnerabilities To Do With Assuming 18 Decimals
    • 🤝Conclusion
  • ➗Tutorial 20: Arithmetic
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 🕳️Arithmetic pitfall 1: Division by 0
    • 🔪Arithmetic pitfall 2: Precision Loss Due To Rounding
    • 🥸Arithmetic pitfall 3: Erroneous Calculations
    • 🤝Conclusion
  • 🔁Tutorial 21: Unbounded Loops
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • ⛽Gas Limit Vulnerability
    • 📨Transaction Failures Within Loops
    • 🤝Conclusion
  • 📔Tutorial 22: `isContract`
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 💀Understanding the 'isContract()` vulnerability
    • 🤝Conclusion
  • 💵Tutorial 23: Staking
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 💀First Depositor Inflation Attack in Staking Contracts
    • 🌪️Front-Running Rebase Attack (Stepwise Jump in Rewards)
    • ♨️Rugability of a Poorly Implemented recoverERC20 Function in Staking Contracts
    • 😠General Considerations for ERC777 Reentrancy Vulnerabilities
    • 🥏Vulnerability: _lpToken and Reward Token Confusion in Staking Contracts
    • 🌊Slippage Checks
    • 🌽The Harvest Functionality in Vaults: Issues and Best Practices
  • ⛓️Tutorial 24: Chain Re-org Vulnerability
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • ♻️Chain Reorganization (Re-org) Vulnerability
    • 🧑‍⚖️Chain Re-org Vulnerability in Governance Voting Mechanisms
  • 🌉Tutorial 25: Cross Chain Bridges Vulnerabilities
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • ♻️ERC777 Bridge Vulnerability: Reentrancy Attack in Token Accounting
      • 🛑Vulnerability: Withdrawals Can Be Locked Forever If Recipient Is a Contract
    • 👛The Dangers of Not Using SafeERC20 for Token Transfers
    • Uninitialized Variable Vulnerability in Upgradeable Smart Contracts
    • Unsafe External Calls and Their Vulnerabilities
    • Signature Replay Attacks in Cross-Chain Protocols
  • 🚰Tutorial 26: Integer Underflow and Overflow Vulnerabilities in Solidity (Before 0.8.0)
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 💀Understanding Integer Underflow and Overflow Vulnerabilities
    • 🤝Conclusion
  • 🥏Tutorial 27: OpenZeppelin Vulnerabilities
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 🛣️A Guide on Vulnerability Awareness and Management
      • 🤝Conclusion
  • 🖊️Tutorial 28: Signature Vulnerabilities / Replays
    • 🚀Prerequisites
    • 🔏Reusing EIP-712 Signatures in Private Sales
    • 🔁Replay Attacks on Failed Transactions
    • 📃Improper Token Validation in Permit Signature
  • 🤝Tutorial 29: Solmate Vulnerabilities
    • 🔏Lack of Code Size Check in Token Transfer Functions in Solmate
  • 🧱Tutorial 30: Inconsistent block lengths across chains
    • 🕛Incorrect Assumptions about Block Number in Multi-Chain Deployments
  • 💉Tutorial 31: NFT JSON and XSS injection
    • 📜Vulnerability: JSON Injection in tokenURI Functions
    • 📍Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability via SVG Construction in Smart Contracts
  • 🍃Tutorial 32: Merkle Leafs
    • 🖥️Misuse of Merkle Leaf Nodes
  • 0️Tutorial 33: Layer 0
    • 📩Lack of Force Resume in LayerZero Integrations
    • ⛽LayerZero-Specific Vulnerabilities in Airdropped Gas and Failure Handling
    • 🔓Understanding the Vulnerability of Blocking LayerZero Channels
    • 🖊️Copy of Understanding the Vulnerability of Blocking LayerZero Channels
  • ♻️Tutorial 34: Forgetting to Update the Global State in Smart Contracts
  • ‼️Tutorial 35: Wrong Function Signature
  • 🛑Tutorial 36: Handling Edge Cases of Banned Addresses in DeFi
  • Tutorial 37: initializer and onlyInitializing
  • ➗Tutorial 38: Eigen Layer
    • 📩Denial of Service in NodeDelegator Due to EigenLayer's maxPerDeposit Check
    • 📈Incorrect Share Issuance Due to Strategy Updates in EigenLayer Integrations
    • 🔁nonReentrant Vulnerability in EigenLayer Withdrawals
  • ⚫Tutorial 39: Wormhole
    • 📩Proposal Execution Failure Due to Guardian Set Change
  • 💼Tutorial 40: Uniswap V3
    • 📩Understanding and Mitigating Partial Swaps in Uniswap V3
    • 🌊Underflow Vulnerability in Uniswap V3 Position Fee Growth Calculations
    • ➗Handling Decimal Discrepancies in Uniswap V3 Price Calculations
  • 🔢Tutorial 41: Multiple Token Addresses in Proxied Tokens
    • 🔓Understanding Vulnerabilities Arising from Tokens with Multiple Entry Points
  • 🤖Tutorial 42: abiDecoder v2
    • 🥥Vulnerabilities from Manipulated Token Interactions Using ABI Decoding
  • ❓Tutorial 43: On-Chain Randomness
    • Vulnerabilities in On-Chain Randomness and How It Can Be Exploited
  • 😖Tutorial 44: Weird ERC20 Tokens
    • Weird Token List
  • 🔨Tutorial 45: Hardcoded stable coin values
  • ❤️Tutorial 46: The Risks of Chainlink Heartbeat Discrepancies in Smart Contracts
  • 👣Tutorial 47: The Risk of Forgetting a Withdrawal Mechanism in Smart Contracts
  • 💻Tutorial 48: Governance and Voting
    • Flash Loan Voting Exploit
    • Exploiting Self-Delegation
    • 💰Missing payable Keyword in Governance Execute Function
    • 👊Voting Multiple Times by Shifting Delegation
    • 🏑Missing Duplicate Veto Check
  • 📕Tutorial 49: Not Conforming To EIP standards
    • 💎Understanding EIP-2981: NFT Royalty Standard
    • 👍Improper Implementation of EIP-2612 Permit Standard
    • 🔁Vulnerabilities of Missing EIP-155 Replay Attack Protection
    • ➡️Vulnerabilities Due to Missing EIP-1967 in Proxy Contracts
    • 🔓Vulnerability of Design Preventing EIP-165 Extensibility
    • 🎟️The Dangers of Not Properly Implementing ERC-4626 in Yield Vaults
    • 🔁EIP-712 Implementation and Replay Attacks
  • ⏳Tutorial 50: Vesting
    • 🚔Vulnerability of Allowing Unauthorized Withdrawals in Vesting Contracts
    • 👊Vulnerability of Unbounded Timelock Loops in Vesting Contracts
    • ⬆️Vulnerability of Incorrect Linear Vesting Calculations
    • ⛳Missing hasStarted Modifier
    • 🔓Vulnerability in Bond Depositor's Vesting Period Reset
  • ⛽Tutorial 51: Ethereum's 63/64 Gas Rule
    • 🛢️Abusing Ethereum's 63/64 Gas Rule to Manipulate Contract Behavior
  • 📩Tutorial 52: NPM Dependency Confusion and Unclaimed Packages
    • 💎Exploiting Unclaimed NPM Packages and Scopes
  • 🎈Tutorial 53: Airdrops
    • 🛄Claiming on Behalf of Other Users
    • 🧲Repeated Airdrop Claims Vulnerability
    • 🍃Airdrop Vulnerability – Merkle Leaves and Parent Node Hash Collisions
  • 🎯Tutorial 54: Precision
    • 🎁Vulnerabilities Due to Insufficient Precision in Reward Calculations
    • Min-Shares: Fixed Minimum Share Values for Tokens with Low Decimal Precision
    • Vulnerability Due to Incorrect Rounding When the Numerator is Not a Multiple of the Denominator
    • Vulnerability from Small Deposits Being Rounded Down to Zero Shares in Smart Contracts
    • Precision Loss During Withdrawals from Vaults Can Block Token Transfers Due to Value < Amount
    • 18 Decimal Assumption Scaling: Loss of Precision in Asset Conversion Due to Incorrect Scaling
  • Tutorial 55: AssetIn == AssetOut, FromToken == ToToken
    • 🖼️Vulnerability: Missing fromToken != toToken Check
  • 🚿Tutorial 56: Vulnerabilities Related to LP Tokens Being the Same as Reward Tokens
    • 🖼️Vulnerabilities Caused by LP Tokens Being the Same as Reward Tokens
  • Tutorial 57: Unsanitized SWAP Paths and Arbitrary Contract Call Vulnerabilities
    • 📲Arbitrary Contract Calls from Unsanitized Paths
  • Tutorial 58: The Risk of Infinite Approvals and Arbitrary Contract Calls
    • 🪣Exploiting Infinite Approvals and Arbitrary Contract Calls
  • Tutorial 59: Low-Level Calls in Solidity Returning True for Non-Existent Contracts
    • Low-Level Calls Returning True for Non-Existent Contracts
  • 0️⃣Tutorial 60: The Impact of PUSH0 and the Shanghai Hardfork on Cross-Chain Deployments > 0.8.20
    • PUSH0 and Cross-Chain Compatibility Challenges
  • 🐍Tutorial 61: Vyper Vulnerable Versions
    • Vyper and the EVM
  • ⌨️Tutorial 62: Typos in Smart Contracts — The Silent Threat Leading to Interface Mismatch
    • Vyper and the EVM
  • ☁️Tutorial 63: Balance Check Using ==
    • The Vulnerability: == Balance Check
  • 💍Tutorial 64: Equal Royalties for Unequal NFTs
    • Understanding the Problem: Equal Royalties for Unequal NFTs
  • 🖼️Tutorial 65: ERC721 and NFTs
    • The Risk of Using transferFrom Instead of safeTransferFrom in ERC721 Projects
    • ❄️Why _safeMint Should Be Used Instead of _mint in ERC721 Projects
    • The Importance of Validating Token Types in Smart Contracts
    • 📬Implementing ERC721TokenReceiver to Handle ERC721 Safe Transfers
    • NFT Implementation Deviating from ERC721 Standard in Transfer Functions
    • NFT Approval Persistence after Transfer
    • 🎮Gameable NFT Launches through Pseudo-Randomness
    • 2️⃣Protecting Buyers from Losing Funds Due to Claimed NFT Rewards on Secondary Markets
    • ♻️Preventing Reentrancy When Using SafeERC721
    • 🖊️Preventing Re-use of EIP-712 Signatures in NFT Private Sales
  • 2️⃣Tutorial 66: Vulnerability Arising from NFTs Supporting Both ERC721 and ERC1155 Standards
  • 📷Tutorial 67: ERC1155 Vulnerabilities
    • ♻️Preventing Reentrancy in OpenZeppelin's SafeERC1155
    • 🛫Vulnerabilities in OpenZeppelin's ERC1155Supply Contract
    • Understanding Incorrect Token Owner Enumeration in ERC1155Enumerable
    • Avoiding Breaking ERC1155 Composability with Improper safeTransferFrom Implementation
    • 💍Ensuring Compatibility with EIP-2981 in ERC1155 Contracts
  • 🪟Informational Vulnerabilities
  • ⛽Gas Efficiency
  • 💻Automation Tools
  • 🔜Out Of Gas (Coming Soon)
  • 🔜DEX Aggregators (Coming Soon)
  • 🔜Bribes (Coming Soon)
  • 🔜Understanding Compiled Bytecode (coming soon)
  • 🔜Deployment Mistakes (coming soon)
  • 🔜Optimistic Roll-ups (coming soon)
  • 🔜Typos (coming soon)
  • 🔜Try-Catch (coming soon)
  • 🔜NFT Market-place (coming soon)
  • 🔜Upgrade-able Contracts (coming soon)
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[M-01] Unbounded loop in TwapOracle.update can result in oracle being locked
[M-18] TWAPOracle.getRate does not scale the ratio
[L-02] Uniswap oracle assumes PairToken <> WETH liquidity
[H-28] Incorrect Price Consultation Results