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Security Audit
November 11th, 2022
Version 1.0.0
Presented by 0xMacro
This document includes the results of the security audit for thirdweb's smart contract code as found in the section titled ‘Source Code’. The security audit was performed by the Macro security team from September 26, 2022 to October 7, 2022.
The purpose of this audit is to review the source code of certain thirdweb Solidity contracts, and provide feedback on the design, architecture, and quality of the source code with an emphasis on validating the correctness and security of the software in its entirety.
Disclaimer: While Macro’s review is comprehensive and has surfaced some changes that should be made to the source code, this audit should not solely be relied upon for security, as no single audit is guaranteed to catch all possible bugs.
The following is an aggregation of issues found by the Macro Audit team:
| Severity | Count | Acknowledged | Won't Do | Addressed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medium | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Code Quality | 2 | - | 2 | - |
thirdweb was quick to respond to these issues.
Our understanding of the specification was based on the following sources:
The following source code was reviewed during the audit:
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Specifically, we audited the following contracts:
| Contract | SHA256 |
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| contracts/drop/DropERC20.sol |
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| contracts/drop/DropERC721.sol |
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| contracts/drop/DropERC1155.sol |
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Note: This document contains an audit solely of the Solidity contracts listed above. Specifically, the audit pertains only to the contracts themselves, and does not pertain to any other programs or scripts, including deployment scripts.
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We quantify issues in three parts:
This third part – the severity level – is a summary of how much consideration the client should give to fixing the issue. We assign severity according to the table of guidelines below:
| Severity | Description |
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(C-x) Critical |
We recommend the client must fix the issue, no matter what, because not fixing would mean significant funds/assets WILL be lost. |
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(H-x) High |
We recommend the client must address the issue, no matter what, because not fixing would be very bad, or some funds/assets will be lost, or the code’s behavior is against the provided spec. |
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(M-x) Medium |
We recommend the client to seriously consider fixing the issue, as the implications of not fixing the issue are severe enough to impact the project significantly, albiet not in an existential manner. |
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(L-x) Low |
The risk is small, unlikely, or may not relevant to the project in a meaningful way. Whether or not the project wants to develop a fix is up to the goals and needs of the project. |
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(Q-x) Code Quality |
The issue identified does not pose any obvious risk, but fixing could improve overall code quality, on-chain composability, developer ergonomics, or even certain aspects of protocol design. |
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(I-x) Informational |
Warnings and things to keep in mind when operating the protocol. No immediate action required. |
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(G-x) Gas Optimizations |
The presented optimization suggestion would save an amount of gas significant enough, in our opinion, to be worth the development cost of implementing it. |
When claiming, ClaimCondition’s quantityLimitPerWallet is validated and incremented. This also happens for Merkle proof claiming, a situation where:
This all works as advertised. However, both normal claims and Merkle proof claims validate and increment quantityLimitPerWallet. This means the admin and user are vulnerable to subtle usage pitfalls. For example, take the following scenario:
In this scenario, several issues may occur:
quantityLimitPerWallet set to 6. However, this allows user X to mint 6 tokens at 0.25 WETH.
To do this properly, the admin must update the merkle tree twice – the second time only after user X has fully minted the first.quantityLimitPerWallet to be 2, and the other to be 4. However, this only allows user X to mint 4 tokens total (instead of 6).quantityLimitPerWallet to be 2 for 0.25 WETH. However, in the meantime, user X has minted one token at the normal price; they can now only claim 1 token at the discounted price.Other contracts / software systems that maintain merkle trees for these drop contracts might also create more severe vulnerabilities for themselves.
To help avoid the above confusions, consider:
struct AllowlistProof, to allow limitations per topic (e.g. a specific currency/price) instead of just per address; orTransferring a token from a large mint batch may cost a very high amount of gas.
Consider implementing an optional max batch size, and consider including / referring to docs about how to optimally transfer minted tokens (example).
Not fixing.
Moving to ERC721-A for all NFT Drops.
In the previous version of the contracts, a setWalletClaimCount() function was available for an admin to manually set an addresses’s claim count.
In the current version, no such function exists.
Consider implementing a similar function, if it is desirable for an admin to be able to manually update these values without having to deal with merkle proofs.
Not fixing right now.
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