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Submission Details
Severity: high
Valid

Lack of token transfer approval will result in offer creation failure

vladzaev

Summary

While creating an Offer in PreMarkets tokens should be send from a user to CapitalPool from TokenManager. However the call will fail as user never gives an approval for TokenManager.

Vulnerability Details

Firstly, a user calls PreMarkets#createOffer() to start a process:

function createOffer(CreateOfferParams calldata params) external payable {
...
​
{
...
​
ITokenManager tokenManager = tadleFactory.getTokenManager();
tokenManager.tillIn{value: msg.value}(
_msgSender(),
params.tokenAddress,
transferAmount,
false
);
}
​
...
}

This function forward a call to TokenManager contract:

function tillIn(
address _accountAddress,
address _tokenAddress,
uint256 _amount,
bool _isPointToken
)
external
payable
onlyRelatedContracts(tadleFactory, _msgSender())
onlyInTokenWhiteList(_isPointToken, _tokenAddress)
{
...
​
address capitalPoolAddr = tadleFactory.relatedContracts(
RelatedContractLibraries.CAPITAL_POOL
);
if (capitalPoolAddr == address(0x0)) {
revert Errors.ContractIsNotDeployed();
}
​
if (_tokenAddress == wrappedNativeToken) {
...
} else {
/// @notice token is ERC20 token
@> _transfer(
_tokenAddress,
_accountAddress,
capitalPoolAddr,
_amount,
capitalPoolAddr
);
}
​
emit TillIn(_accountAddress, _tokenAddress, _amount, _isPointToken);
}

and it uses two internal functions for transfer:

function _transfer(
address _token,
address _from,
address _to,
uint256 _amount,
address _capitalPoolAddr
) internal {
uint256 fromBalanceBef = IERC20(_token).balanceOf(_from);
uint256 toBalanceBef = IERC20(_token).balanceOf(_to);
​
if (
_from == _capitalPoolAddr &&
IERC20(_token).allowance(_from, address(this)) == 0x0
) {
ICapitalPool(_capitalPoolAddr).approve(address(this));
}
​
_safe_transfer_from(_token, _from, _to, _amount);
​
uint256 fromBalanceAft = IERC20(_token).balanceOf(_from);
uint256 toBalanceAft = IERC20(_token).balanceOf(_to);
​
if (fromBalanceAft != fromBalanceBef - _amount) {
revert TransferFailed();
}
​
if (toBalanceAft != toBalanceBef + _amount) {
revert TransferFailed();
}
}
​
function _safe_transfer_from(
address token,
address from,
address to,
uint256 amount
) internal {
(bool success, ) = token.call(
abi.encodeWithSelector(TRANSFER_FROM_SELECTOR, from, to, amount)
);
​
if (!success) {
revert TransferFailed();
}
}

As you can see from this function flow user never gives an approval for TokenManager to transfer his tokens, so any ettempt to create Offer will fail.

Impact

Users will no be able to create Offers

Tools Used

Manual review

Recommendations

Make sure a user call approve to TokenManager before it will try to transfer his tokens.

function createOffer(CreateOfferParams calldata params) external payable {\
...
​
{
...
+ params.tokenAddress.approve(tokenManager, transferAmount);
ITokenManager tokenManager = tadleFactory.getTokenManager();
tokenManager.tillIn{value: msg.value}(
_msgSender(),
params.tokenAddress,
transferAmount,
false
);
}
​
...
}
Updates

Lead Judging Commences

0xnevi Lead Judge about 1 year ago
Submission Judgement Published
Validated
Assigned finding tags:

finding-TokenManager-safeTransferFrom-withdraw-missing-approve

This issue's severity has similar reasonings to #252, whereby If we consider the correct permissioned implementation for the `approve()` function within `CapitalPool.sol`, this would be a critical severity issue, because the withdrawal of funds will be permanently blocked and must be rescued by the admin via the `Rescuable.sol` contract, given it will always revert [here](https://github.com/Cyfrin/2024-08-tadle/blob/04fd8634701697184a3f3a5558b41c109866e5f8/src/core/CapitalPool.sol#L36-L38) when attempting to call a non-existent function selector `approve` within the TokenManager contract. Similarly, the argument here is the approval function `approve` was made permisionless, so if somebody beforehand calls approval for the TokenManager for the required token, the transfer will infact not revert when a withdrawal is invoked. I will leave open for escalation discussions, but based on my first point, I believe high severity is appropriate. It also has a slightly different root cause and fix whereby an explicit approval needs to be provided before a call to `_safe_transfer_from()`, if not, the alternative `_transfer()` function should be used to provide an approval, assuming a fix was implemented for issue #252

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