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Description

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to inflate the fee-payer's gas cost per sponsored payment by a large multiplier and to have the sponsor pay for EIP-7702 account delegations of the client's choosing.

When the server sponsors Tempo payments, MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy.measure/3 in lib/mpp/methods/tempo/fee_payer_policy.ex bounds the gas fields, the fee budget, the validity window and the access list of the client-signed 0x76 envelope, but never reads its aa_authorization_list field. Every signed delegation in that list is charged as intrinsic gas before the payment call runs, so a client attaching delegations from throwaway authority keys makes the sponsor pay for them within the default gas_limit ceiling. At the reporter's default of seven entries the sponsored cost rises from about 46,575 gas to about 1,884,087 gas. Because each entry is applied as a persistent set-code delegation, a client can also upgrade its own accounts to delegated code at the sponsor's expense.

This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.16.1.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-1284 · Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-130 · Excessive Allocation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / mpp Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.2.0 < 0.16.1 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ZenHive:mpp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy' · 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo'
source files lib/mpp/methods/tempo/fee_payer_policy.ex · lib/mpp/methods/tempo.ex
routines 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy':measure/3 · 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy':validate/3 · 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo':verify/2

Affected — GitHub / zenhive/mpp Repository ↗

d29d54e < 0482572 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ZenHive:mpp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy' · 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo'
source files lib/mpp/methods/tempo/fee_payer_policy.ex · lib/mpp/methods/tempo.ex
routines 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy':measure/3 · 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy':validate/3 · 'Elixir.MPP.Methods.Tempo':verify/2

Workarounds

Disable Tempo fee sponsorship by leaving "fee_payer" at its default of false and setting no fee_payer_url, so the client pays its own gas. Where sponsorship must stay enabled, lower the max_gas override in fee_payer_policy to just above what a legitimate sponsored payment needs (a TIP-20 transfer is roughly 50,000 gas), so an envelope padded with delegations either fails the policy or runs out of gas at a bounded cost. This bounds the inflation without closing it.

Configurations

Only deployments that enable Tempo server-side fee sponsorship are affected, through "fee_payer" => true in method_config with either local co-signing (fee_payer_private_key) or hosted sponsorship (fee_payer_url). Sponsorship is disabled by default.

References

Credits

Kian Kai Ang Finder Reporter
E.FU Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Coordinator

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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