The $8 million Platypus flash mortgage assault was made doable due to code that was within the flawed order, based on a submit mortem report from Platypus auditor Omniscia. The auditing firm claims the problematic code didn’t exist within the model they noticed.
In gentle of the current @Platypusdefi incident the https://t.co/30PzcoIJnt workforce has ready a technical autopsy evaluation describing how the exploit unravelled in nice particulars.
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In keeping with the report, the Platypus MasterPlatypusV4 contract “contained a deadly false impression in its emergencyWithdraw mechanism,” which made it carry out “its solvency test earlier than updating the LP tokens related to the stake place.”
The report emphasised that the code for the emergencyWithdraw operate had all the mandatory parts to stop an assault, however these parts had been merely written within the flawed order, as Omniscia defined:
“The difficulty might have been prevented by re-ordering the MasterPlatypusV4::emergencyWithdraw statements and performing the solvency test after the person’s quantity entry has been set to 0 which might have prohibited the assault from going down.”
Omnisia admitted that they audited a model of the MasterPlatypusV4 contract from Nov. 21 to Dec. 5, 2021. Nevertheless, this model “contained no integration factors with an exterior platypusTreasure system” and subsequently didn’t comprise the misordered strains of code. Omniscia’s viewpoint implies that the builders will need to have deployed a brand new model of the contract sooner or later after the audit was made.
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The auditor claims that the contract implementation at Avalanche C-Chain deal with 0xc007f27b757a782c833c568f5851ae1dfe0e6ec7 is the one which was exploited. Traces 582–584 of this contract seem to name a operate known as “isSolvent” on the PlatypusTreasure contract, and contours 599–601 seem to set the person’s quantity, issue and rewardDebt to zero. Nevertheless, these quantities are set to zero after the “isSolvent” operate has already been known as.
The Platypus workforce confirmed on Feb. 16 that the attacker exploited a “flaw in [the] USP solvency test mechanism,” however the workforce didn’t initially present additional element. This new report from the auditor sheds additional gentle on how the attacker might have been capable of accomplish the exploit.
The Platypus workforce introduced on Feb. 16 that the assault had occurred. It has tried to contact the hacker and get the funds returned in change for a bug bounty. The attacker used flashed loans to carry out the exploit, which is analogous to the technique used within the Defrost Finance exploit on Dec. 25, 2022.
