Submission Details
Severity:
Password is not truly private
Summary
private variables in Solidity does not provide actual privacy
Vulnerability Details
address private s_owner;
variables are assigned to storage. In this case it can be read by reading storage slot 0
Impact
This is a high risk finding because it completely violates the privacy intention of the contract.
Tools Used
manual analysis
Recommendations
don't store sensitive information onchain
encrypt variables that are stored
Updates
Lead Judging Commences
inallhonesty
almost 2 years ago
inallhonesty almost 2 years ago
Submission Judgement Published Assigned finding tags:
finding-anyone-can-read-storage
Private functions and state variables are only visible for the contract they are defined in and not in derived contracts. In this case private doesn't mean secret/confidential
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