Santa's List

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Severity: medium
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[M-2] SantaToken.burn only burns 1e18 but PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST is 2e18

Root + Impact

Description

  • SantasList defines PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST = 2e18 as the intended cost for purchasing a present via buyPresent. The expectation is that callers must hold and spend 2 SantaTokens per present.

  • However, SantaToken.burn is hardcoded to always burn exactly 1e18 , regardless of the documented cost. The constant PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST is defined but never actually used anywhere in the codebase — it is purely decorative. As a result, every present is purchased for half the intended price.

// SantasList.sol
// @> Intended cost is 2e18 — but this constant is never passed to burn
uint256 public constant PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST = 2e18;
// SantaToken.sol
function burn(address from) external {
if (msg.sender != i_santasList) {
revert SantaToken__NotSantasList();
}
// @> Burns only 1e18, not PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST (2e18)
_burn(from, 1e18);
}

Risk

Likelihood:

  • Every call to buyPresent triggers burn, which always deducts only 1e18 — the mismatch is constant and unconditional

  • An EXTRA_NICE user who receives 1e18 tokens can immediately spend them on a present, even though the design required 2e18


Impact:

  • Naughty users (or anyone with tokens) can buy presents for half the intended cost

  • The token economy is imbalanced PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST is misleading dead code

  • An EXTRA_NICE user's single token reward can be fully spent, contrary to the protocol's economic design

Proof of Concept

A user with exactly 1e18 SantaTokens less than the documented PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST of 2e18 successfully calls buyPresent without reverting, because burn only deducts 1e18.

function testBuyPresentHalfPrice() public {
address buyer = makeAddr("buyer");
deal(address(santaToken), buyer, 1e18); // less than PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST
vm.prank(buyer);
santasList.buyPresent(buyer); // succeeds — only 1e18 burned
assertEq(santaToken.balanceOf(buyer), 0); // 1e18 burned, not 2e18
}

Recommended Mitigation

Update SantaToken.burn to accept an amount parameter, and pass PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST explicitly from buyPresent. This ties the actual deduction to the documented cost constant.

- 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);
}

And in SantasList.sol:

function buyPresent(address presentReceiver) external {
- i_santaToken.burn(msg.sender);
+ i_santaToken.burn(msg.sender, PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST);
_safeMint(presentReceiver, s_tokenCounter++);
}
Updates

Lead Judging Commences

ai-first-flight-judge Lead Judge 4 days 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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