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Description
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to redeem one confirmed on-chain payment for multiple paid-resource accesses.
The type="hash" credential path in MPP.Methods.Tempo.verify/2 guards against replay with a non-atomic check-then-mark sequence: check_hash_unused/2 reads the dedup store, an eth_getTransactionReceipt round trip verifies the payment on chain, and only then does mark_hash_used/2 write the mark. Concurrent requests carrying the same settled payment hash all pass the read before any of them writes, so each is issued a receipt. The store's atomic check_and_mark/2 primitive is available and used by the type="transaction" path, but the hash path calls plain get and put even when the configured store implements it. Exploitation requires a dedup store to be configured; the default nil store is stateless and documented as offering no replay protection at all.
This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.6.1.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-367
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Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-29
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Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / mpp Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / zenhive/mpp Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Configurations
The race is only reachable when MPP.Methods.Tempo is configured with a dedup store ("store" in method_config). The default is nil, which runs the library statelessly and provides no application-level replay protection at all, a documented property rather than part of this issue.
References
GHSA-w8j7-7qc3-5f24 ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-73829 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N