MyCut

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Severity: low
Valid

Integer division in `Pot::closePot` rounds each claimant share down, leaving un-distributable dust locked in the contract

Severity: L · Impact: L · Likelihood: H

Description

  • closePot computes the manager cut and each claimant share with integer division, which rounds down.

  • Even after the divisor is corrected (see H-01), the rounded-off remainder — (remainingRewards - managerCut) mod claimants.length — is never assigned to anyone and stays in the Pot as permanently locked "dead funds."

// src/Pot.sol:L54-L60
uint256 managerCut = remainingRewards / managerCutPercent; // rounds down
...
@> uint256 claimantCut = (remainingRewards - managerCut) / i_players.length; // rounds down; remainder stranded
for (uint256 i = 0; i < claimants.length; i++) {
_transferReward(claimants[i], claimantCut);
}

Risk

Likelihood

  • High: any close where the leftover pool does not divide evenly by the claimant count leaves a remainder — the common case.

Impact

  • Low: the stranded amount is bounded by claimants.length - 1 token units per close (dust), not the bulk of the pool. Value is small but permanently unrecoverable.

Proof of Concept

Extend the H-01 test: after applying the correct divisor (/ claimants.length), 45 tokens split among 2 claimants gives 22 each (44 distributed), leaving 1 unit that no code path can move out of the Pot. The remainder scales with, but stays below, claimants.length.

Recommended Mitigation

Sweep the division remainder to the manager (or the last claimant) so the pool is fully accounted for.

// src/Pot.sol:L57-L60
uint256 claimantCut = (remainingRewards - managerCut) / claimants.length;
for (uint256 i = 0; i < claimants.length; i++) {
_transferReward(claimants[i], claimantCut);
}
+ uint256 dust = (remainingRewards - managerCut) - (claimantCut * claimants.length);
+ if (dust > 0) i_token.transfer(msg.sender, dust); // sweep rounding remainder to the manager

Why: the swept remainder guarantees the entire leftover pool leaves the contract, so no dust is locked.

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Submission Judgement Published
Validated
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[L-03] [H-03] Precision loss can lead to rewards getting stuck in the pot forever

### \[H-03] Precision loss can lead to rewards getting stuck in the pot forever **Description:** When contest manager closes the pot by calling `Pot::closePot`, 10 percent of the remaining rewards are transferred to the contest manager and the rest are distributed equally among the claimants. It does this by dividing the rewards by the manager's cut percentage which is 10. Then the remaining rewards are divided by the number of players to distribute equally among claimants. Since solidity allows only integer division this will lead to precision loss which will cause a portion of funds to be left in the pot forever. Each pot follows the same method, so as number of pots grow, the loss of funds is very significant. **Impact:** Reward tokens get stuck in the pot forever which causes loss of funds. **Proof of code:** Add the below test to `test/TestMyCut.t.sol` ```javascript function testPrecisionLoss() public mintAndApproveTokens { ContestManager cm = ContestManager(conMan); uint playersLength = 3; address[] memory p = new address[](playersLength); uint256[] memory r = new uint256[](playersLength); uint tr = 86; p[0] = makeAddr("_player1"); p[1] = makeAddr("_player2"); p[2] = makeAddr("_player3"); r[0] = 20; r[1] = 23; r[2] = 43; vm.startPrank(user); address pot = cm.createContest(p, r, weth, tr); cm.fundContest(0); vm.stopPrank(); console.log("\n\ntoken balance in pot before: ", weth.balanceOf(pot)); vm.prank(p[1]); // player 2 Pot(pot).claimCut(); vm.prank(p[0]); // player 1 Pot(pot).claimCut(); vm.prank(user); vm.warp(block.timestamp + 90 days + 1); cm.closeContest(pot); console.log( "\n\ntoken balance in pot after closing pot: ", weth.balanceOf(pot) ); assert(weth.balanceOf(pot) != 0); } ``` Run the below test command in terminal ```Solidity forge test --mt testPrecisionLoss -vv ``` Which results in the below output ```Solidity [⠒] Compiling... [⠆] Compiling 1 files with 0.8.20 [⠰] Solc 0.8.20 finished in 2.57s Compiler run successful! Ran 1 test for test/TestMyCut.t.sol:TestMyCut [PASS] testPrecisionLoss() (gas: 936926) Logs: token balance in pot before: 86 token balance in pot after closing pot: 1 Suite result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 skipped; finished in 1.75ms (654.60µs CPU time) Ran 1 test suite in 261.16ms (1.75ms CPU time): 1 tests passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped (1 total tests) ``` If you observe the output you can see the pot still has rewards despite distributing them to claimants. **Recommended Mitigations:** Fixed-Point Arithmetic: Utilize a fixed-point arithmetic library or implement a custom solution to handle fee calculations with greater precision.

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