First Flight #22: Steaking
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Submission Details
Severity: high
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Point System Gamification for $STEAK Token Airdrop

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Summary

$STEAK Token Airdrop point system is vulnerable to gaming. A user can repeatedly stake and unstake countless of times, claiming multiple points for STEAK airdrop token, gaining a massive amount of points.

Vulnerability Details

Affected code here, this code only listens to the stake event, and records points for each stake

https://github.com/Cyfrin/2024-08-steaking/blob/87e81eb617f3bca3dfbd7c6d4c90bdf1c988ebb0/steaking-server/src/main.js#L12-L35

async function main() {
await connectToMongodb();
const { rpcUrl, steakingAddress } = getConfig();
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const provider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider(rpcUrl);
const steaking = new ethers.Contract(steakingAddress, steakingAbi, provider);
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steaking.on(STAKED, async (_, amount, onBehalfOf) => {
let steakPoints;
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steakPoints = await steakPointsModel.findOne({ walletAddress: onBehalfOf });
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if (!steakPoints) {
steakPoints = new steakPointsModel({
walletAddress: onBehalfOf,
points: +ethers.formatEther(amount) * PRECISION,
});
} else {
steakPoints.points += +ethers.formatEther(amount) * PRECISION;
}
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​
await steakPoints.save();
});
}

Impact

A user can repeatedly stake and unstake countless of times, claiming multiple points for STEAK airdrop token, gaining a massive amount of points which is unacceptable

Tools Used

Manual review

Recommendations

Add a listener for unstaking to the server and reduce points for each unstake, to avoid gamification of point system

const UNSTAKED =
steaking.on(UNSTAKED, async (by, amount, _) => {
let steakPoints;
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steakPoints = await steakPointsModel.findOne({ walletAddress: by });
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if (!steakPoints) {
return
} else {
//reduce points
steakPoints.points -= +ethers.formatEther(amount) * PRECISION;
}
​
await steakPoints.save();
});
Updates

Lead Judging Commences

inallhonesty Lead Judge 10 months ago
Submission Judgement Published
Validated
Assigned finding tags:

Steaking server is not taking unstakes into account

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