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Owner of Cally may DOS the exercise of options by setting feeRate greater than 100% #251

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code423n4 opened this issue May 14, 2022 · 1 comment
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https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-05-cally/blob/1849f9ee12434038aa80753266ce6a2f2b082c59/contracts/src/Cally.sol#L119-L121
https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-05-cally/blob/1849f9ee12434038aa80753266ce6a2f2b082c59/contracts/src/Cally.sol#L282-L289

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Impact

Owner of Cally contract may DOS exercising any options, allowing options to be sold which will never be redeemable.

Proof of Concept

The owner of the Cally contract may set feeRate to arbitrary values, including in excess of 1e18:

https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-05-cally/blob/1849f9ee12434038aa80753266ce6a2f2b082c59/contracts/src/Cally.sol#L119-L121

If feeRate > 1e18 then L289 in the snippet linked below will revert, preventing any options from being exercised:

https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-05-cally/blob/1849f9ee12434038aa80753266ce6a2f2b082c59/contracts/src/Cally.sol#L282-L289

In the case where the owner of the Cally contract has a conflict of interest such as holding vaults for which options will soon become in-the-money, they can DOS to prevent these from being exercised until they can close those vaults.

Recommended Mitigation Steps

Choose a sensible maximum platform fee (well below 100%) and revert someone attempts to set it above that value. This will ensure that even in the case of compromised ownership over the Cally contract all options will work as intended.

@code423n4 code423n4 added 2 (Med Risk) Assets not at direct risk, but function/availability of the protocol could be impacted or leak value bug Something isn't working labels May 14, 2022
code423n4 added a commit that referenced this issue May 14, 2022
@outdoteth outdoteth added the sponsor confirmed Sponsor agrees this is a problem and intends to fix it (OK to use w/ "disagree with severity") label May 15, 2022
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owner can set fee greater than 100%: #48

@outdoteth outdoteth added the duplicate This issue or pull request already exists label May 15, 2022
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