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Curve Voting (Aragon Voting fork) Smart Contract Audit

Introduction

General Provisions

Curve Finance is a project that uses liquidity pools and bonding curves to provide high-efficiency stablecoin trading and low-risk returns for liquidity providers. MixBytes was approached by Curve Finance (https://www.curve.fi/) to provide a security assessment of a part of their governance mechanism smart contracts.

Scope of the Audit

The scope of the audit is a smart contract at https://github.com/pengiundev/curve-aragon-voting/blob/a988e7c9a0543b58f0f0adb93a7b06acd5b36c0c/contracts/Voting.sol.

Audited commit is a988e7c9a0543b58f0f0adb93a7b06acd5b36c0c.

The fork base is considered secure and out of scope.

The specification of the contract is located at https://github.com/pengiundev/curve-aragon-voting/blob/e1d824768dca1a69d7dfc1570e72828d91466e05/SPECS.md.

Security Assessment Principles

Classification of Issues

  • CRITICAL: Bugs leading to Ether or token theft, fund access locking or any other loss of Ether/tokens to be transferred to any party (for example, dividends).

  • MAJOR: Bugs that can trigger a contract failure. Further recovery is possible only by manual modification of the contract state or replacement.

  • WARNINGS: Bugs that can break the intended contract logic or expose it to DoS attacks.

  • COMMENTS: Other issues and recommendations reported to/ acknowledged by the team.

Security Assessment Methodology

Two auditors independently verified the code.

Stages of the audit were as follows:

  • "Blind" manual check of the code and its model
  • "Guided" manual code review
  • Checking the code compliance to customer requirements
  • Discussion of independent audit results
  • Report preparation

Detected Issues

CRITICAL

Not found

MAJOR

1. Voting.sol#L254

canCreateNewVote is not taken into account here, although it can block new vote creation. Which, in turn, will break proper forwarding in the Aragon UI. We suggest adding && canCreateNewVote() here.

Fixed at 757970c

WARNINGS

1. Voting.sol#L60-L62

Global variables initialized in such a way won't work in aragon apps. Explanation: https://hack.aragon.org/docs/aragonos-building#global-variables-in-apps.

We recommend setting them in initialize function like this

function initialize() .. {
	...
minBalanceLowerLimit = <value literal>;
minTimeLowerLimit = <value literal>;
minTimeUpperLimit = <value literal>;
...
}

Fixed at Voting.sol#L147-L149

2. Voting.sol#L125-L126

The values are not checked against the limits. We suggest adding extra checks.

Fixed at a92bf07

3. Voting.sol#L60

Looks like it's assumed that the token's decimals are 18, which is not always the case. We suggest calculating this value dynamically taking into account token.decimals.

Fixed at 757970c

4. Voting.sol#L162-L174

We recommend adding Radspec documentation to the functions. Otherwise, users of Aragon UI will have troubles calling them.

Fixed at 48da227

COMMENTS

1. Voting.sol#L20-L25

Solidity constants are not optimized. They work like pure functions, executed upon each access. We suggest using the same pattern as here: BalanceTimeForwarder.sol#L12.

Fixed at bf14d4b

2. Voting.sol#L103

We recommend adding docs on _minTime and _minBalance parameters.

Fixed at 48da227

3. Voting.sol#L88 Voting.sol#L94 Voting.sol#L163 Voting.sol#L170

The comments and the error message might not be consistent with the actual constraint values.

Fixed at 48da227

4. Voting.sol#L279

The function should be marked as view.

Fixed at 48da227

CONCLUSION

We find the implemented incentivisation approach as a clever solution to the lingering voters problem.

Several troublesome issues were identified and properly addressed.

The fixed contract doesn't have any vulnerabilities according to our analysis.