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Severity: medium
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PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST is a dead constant — the actual burn amount in buyPresent() is 1e18, half the documented cost of 2e18

Root + Impact

PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST is declared as 2e18 but never referenced anywhere in the codebase. SantaToken.burn() hardcodes 1e18 directly. The effective cost of buying a present is permanently half the documented value, creating a discrepancy between the protocol's stated economics and its actual behaviour.

This is a static property of the deployed contract — it affects every call to buyPresent() on every deployment. No special conditions are required.

Description

  • SantasList declares a constant intended to represent the cost of purchasing a present:

// @> documented cost is 2e18 — but this constant is never used anywhere
uint256 public constant PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST = 2e18;
  • buyPresent() calls i_santaToken.burn(presentReceiver) which delegates to SantaToken.burn():

// SantaToken.sol
function burn(address from) external {
if (msg.sender != i_santasList) {
revert SantaToken__NotSantasList();
}
// @> hardcoded 1e18 — PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST is never referenced here
_burn(from, 1e18);
}

PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST is declared but never passed to or used by burn(). A search across all contracts confirms it is referenced zero times in any logic path. It is dead code.

The result is a permanent 50% discount on every present purchase. Any user or integration that reads PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST to determine the cost of calling buyPresent() will operate on incorrect assumptions — the real cost is 1e18, not 2e18.

Risk

Likelihood:

  • Affects every buyPresent() call on every deployment

  • Any off-chain integration or UI reading PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST will display the wrong cost

Impact:

  • Present purchases cost half the intended amount — protocol economics are broken

  • Integrators, frontends, and users reading the public constant receive misleading information

  • If SantaTokens gain secondary market value, every buyer permanently underpays by 50%

Recommended Mitigation

Two options depending on intent:

Option A — Use the constant in the burn call (enforce the documented cost):

// SantaToken.sol
- _burn(from, 1e18);
+ _burn(from, PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST);

This requires passing PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST from SantasList to SantaToken, or redefining the burn amount in SantaToken to match.

Option B — Remove the dead constant and align the documentation to the actual cost:

And update NatSpec to document the actual cost of 1e18.

- uint256 public constant PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST = 2e18;
Updates

Lead Judging Commences

ai-first-flight-judge Lead Judge about 4 hours ago
Submission Judgement Published
Validated
Assigned finding tags:

[M-01] Cost to buy NFT via SantasList::buyPresent is 2e18 SantaToken but it burns only 1e18 amount of SantaToken

## Description - The cost to buy NFT as mentioned in the docs is 2e18 via the `SantasList::buyPresent` function but in the actual implementation of buyPresent function it calls the SantaToken::burn function which doesn't take any parameter for amount and burns a fixed 1e18 amount of SantaToken, thus burning only half of the actual amount that needs to be burnt, and hence user can buy present for their friends at cheaper rates. - Along with this the user is able to buy present for themselves but the docs mentions that present can be bought only for other users. ## Vulnerability Details The vulnerability lies in the code in the function `SantasList::buyPresent` at line 173 and in `SantaToken::burn` at line 28. The function `burn` burns a fixed amount of 1e18 SantaToken whenever `buyPresent` is called but the true value of SantaToken that was expected to be burnt to mint an NFT as present is 2e18. ```cpp function buyPresent(address presentReceiver) external { @> i_santaToken.burn(presentReceiver); _mintAndIncrement(); } ``` ```cpp function burn(address from) external { if (msg.sender != i_santasList) { revert SantaToken__NotSantasList(); } @> _burn(from, 1e18); } ``` ## PoC Add the test in the file: `test/unit/SantasListTest.t.sol`. Run the test: ```cpp forge test --mt test_UsersCanBuyPresentForLessThanActualAmount ``` ```cpp function test_UsersCanBuyPresentForLessThanActualAmount() public { vm.startPrank(santa); // Santa checks user once as EXTRA_NICE santasList.checkList(user, SantasList.Status.EXTRA_NICE); // Santa checks user second time santasList.checkTwice(user, SantasList.Status.EXTRA_NICE); vm.stopPrank(); // christmas time 🌳🎁 HO-HO-HO vm.warp(santasList.CHRISTMAS_2023_BLOCK_TIME()); // user collects their present vm.prank(user); santasList.collectPresent(); // balance after collecting present uint256 userInitBalance = santaToken.balanceOf(user); // now the user holds 1e18 SantaToken assertEq(userInitBalance, 1e18); vm.prank(user); santaToken.approve(address(santasList), 1e18); vm.prank(user); // user buy present // docs mention that user should only buy present for others, but they can buy present for themselves santasList.buyPresent(user); // only 1e18 SantaToken is burnt instead of the true price (2e18) assertEq(santaToken.balanceOf(user), userInitBalance - 1e18); } ``` ## Impact - Protocol mentions that user should be able to buy NFT for 2e18 amount of SantaToken but users can buy NFT for their friends by burning only 1e18 tokens instead of 2e18, thus NFT can be bought at much cheaper rate which is half of the true amount that was expected to buy NFT. - User can buy a present for themselves but docs strictly mentions that present can be bought for someone else. ## Recommendations Include an argument inside the `SantaToken::burn` to specify the amount of token to burn and also update the `SantasList::buyPresent` function with updated parameter for `burn` function to pass correct amount of tokens to burn. - Update the `SantaToken::burn` function ```diff -function burn(address from) external { +function burn(address from, uint256 amount) external { if (msg.sender != i_santasList) { revert SantaToken__NotSantasList(); } - _burn(from, 1e18); + _burn(from, amount); } ``` - Update the `SantasList::buyPresent` function ```diff + error SantasList__ReceiverIsCaller(); function buyPresent(address presentReceiver) external { + if (msg.sender == presentReceiver) { + revert SantasList__ReceiverIsCaller(); + } - i_santaToken.burn(presentReceiver); + i_santaToken.burn(presentReceiver, PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST); _mintAndIncrement(); } ```

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