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Submission Details
Severity: medium
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SantaToken Burns Incorrect Amount - 1e18 Instead of PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST (2e18)

Root + Impact

The SantaToken.burn() function burns a hardcoded amount of 1e18 tokens, but the documented cost for buying presents is PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST = 2e18. This means presents cost half the intended price, breaking the protocol's economic model.

Description

  • Protocol defines PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST = 2e18 as the cost for presents

burn() function hardcodes 1e18 instead of using the constant

  • Presents cost 50% less than intended

// src/SantasList.sol - Line 44
uint256 public constant PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST = 2e18;
// src/SantaToken.sol - Line 32
function burn(address from) external {
if (msg.sender != i_santasList) {
revert SantaToken__NotSantasList();
}
_burn(from, 1e18); // ❌ Burns only 1 token, not 2!
}

Risk

Likelihood:

  • Happens automatically on every buyPresent() call

No conditions needed - affects all purchases

  • Economic model is always incorrect

Impact:

  • Economic imbalance - presents cost 50% less than intended

Token deflation mismatch - burns half the expected tokens

  • Protocol economic model broken - price mechanism doesn't work as designed

  • Combined with Finding #2 - double economic exploit

Proof of Concept

This test shows that burn() only burns 1e18 tokens when it should burn 2e18 according to PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST.

function test_wrongBurnAmount() public {
// Setup: User gets tokens
vm.startPrank(santa);
santasList.checkList(user, SantasList.Status.EXTRA_NICE);
santasList.checkTwice(user, SantasList.Status.EXTRA_NICE);
vm.stopPrank();
vm.warp(santasList.CHRISTMAS_2023_BLOCK_TIME());
vm.prank(user);
santasList.collectPresent();
uint256 userBalanceBefore = santaToken.balanceOf(user);
uint256 expectedCost = santasList.PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST();
// User buys present
vm.prank(user);
santasList.buyPresent(user);
uint256 userBalanceAfter = santaToken.balanceOf(user);
uint256 actualCost = userBalanceBefore - userBalanceAfter;
// Verify: Only burned 1e18 instead of 2e18
assertEq(actualCost, 1e18);
assertEq(expectedCost, 2e18);
assertLt(actualCost, expectedCost);
}

Recommended Mitigation

Change the hardcoded value to match PURCHASED_PRESENT_COST or make the burn amount configurable.

// src/SantaToken.sol
function burn(address from) external {
if (msg.sender != i_santasList) {
revert SantaToken__NotSantasList();
}
- _burn(from, 1e18);
+ _burn(from, 2e18);
}
Updates

Lead Judging Commences

ai-first-flight-judge Lead Judge about 18 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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