Puppy Raffle

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Severity: high
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Integer Overflow Vulnerability in Fee Accounting

uint64 overflow in fee accounting causes permanent loss of fees

Description

  • The contract accumulates protocol fees in totalFees, typed as uint64, and the owner later withdraws them via withdrawFees.


  • When fee (a uint256) is cast to uint64 and added to totalFees, any value exceeding type(uint64).max (~18.4 ETH) silently truncates. On Solidity ^0.7.6 there is no built-in overflow protection, so the accounting silently corrupts. The owner ends up withdrawing far less than was actually collected.

uint256 fee = (totalAmountCollected * 20) / 100;
@> totalFees = totalFees + uint64(fee); // fee is uint256, silently truncated on cast

Risk

Likelihood: Medium

  • This triggers whenever accumulated fees across a single raffle round exceed ~18.4 ETH, which is plausible with a large number of participants or a high entrance fee.

  • The protocol growing in popularity directly increases the likelihood of hitting this threshold.

Impact: High

  • The feeAddress receives significantly less ETH than earned, with no way to recover the difference.

  • The discrepancy is silent — the owner has no way to detect this has occurred from on-chain state alone.

Proof of Concept

The overflow will cause the integer to wrap back to 0 and lose all the information it had stored, and all the fees along with it.

// With entranceFee = 1 ether and 100 players:
// totalAmountCollected = 100 ether
// fee = 20 ether = 20_000_000_000_000_000_000
// type(uint64).max = 18_446_744_073_709_551_615
// uint64(fee) = 1_553_255_926_290_448_385 ← catastrophically wrong

Recommended Mitigation

Change totalFees to uint256. There is no gas-saving justification for uint64 here since it shares a storage slot with feeAddress (a 20-byte address), but the risk far outweighs any marginal benefit.

- uint64 public totalFees = 0;
+ uint256 public totalFees = 0;
- totalFees = totalFees + uint64(fee);
+ totalFees = totalFees + fee;
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ai-first-flight-judge Lead Judge about 3 hours ago
Submission Judgement Published
Validated
Assigned finding tags:

[H-05] Typecasting from uint256 to uint64 in PuppyRaffle.selectWinner() May Lead to Overflow and Incorrect Fee Calculation

## Description ## Vulnerability Details The type conversion from uint256 to uint64 in the expression 'totalFees = totalFees + uint64(fee)' may potentially cause overflow problems if the 'fee' exceeds the maximum value that a uint64 can accommodate (2^64 - 1). ```javascript totalFees = totalFees + uint64(fee); ``` ## POC <details> <summary>Code</summary> ```javascript function testOverflow() public { uint256 initialBalance = address(puppyRaffle).balance; // This value is greater than the maximum value a uint64 can hold uint256 fee = 2**64; // Send ether to the contract (bool success, ) = address(puppyRaffle).call{value: fee}(""); assertTrue(success); uint256 finalBalance = address(puppyRaffle).balance; // Check if the contract's balance increased by the expected amount assertEq(finalBalance, initialBalance + fee); } ``` </details> In this test, assertTrue(success) checks if the ether was successfully sent to the contract, and assertEq(finalBalance, initialBalance + fee) checks if the contract's balance increased by the expected amount. If the balance didn't increase as expected, it could indicate an overflow. ## Impact This could consequently lead to inaccuracies in the computation of 'totalFees'. ## Recommendations To resolve this issue, you should change the data type of `totalFees` from `uint64` to `uint256`. This will prevent any potential overflow issues, as `uint256` can accommodate much larger numbers than `uint64`. Here's how you can do it: Change the declaration of `totalFees` from: ```javascript uint64 public totalFees = 0; ``` to: ```jasvascript uint256 public totalFees = 0; ``` And update the line where `totalFees` is updated from: ```diff - totalFees = totalFees + uint64(fee); + totalFees = totalFees + fee; ``` This way, you ensure that the data types are consistent and can handle the range of values that your contract may encounter.

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