Instadapp

Submit a Bug
19 September 2021
Live since
No
KYC required
$250,000
Maximum bounty
08 April 2024
Last updated

Program Overview

The Instadapp platform is a full feature platform for both users and developers to leverage the full potential of DeFi. The Instadapp protocol ('DSL') acts as the middleware that aggregates multiple DeFi protocols into one upgradable smart contract layer. This structure allows Instadapp to access the full potential of Decentralized Finance.

The main functionalities of the DSL are account extensions and upgradability. The unique upgradability means that the upcoming and new extensions will be upgraded, maintained and managed by INST governance. The DSL also includes a new operability layer that acts as a ‘Account Extension.’ These extensions allow the user to access new and unique functionality for their DSL account. These extensions and the evolution of the platform form a DeFi hub through which new use cases and extensions can be created, some examples of possible use cases include: Flash Loan Module, Authority extension, L2 extension, etc.

For more information about Instadapp, please visit https://instadapp.io/.

This bug bounty program is focused on their smart contracts and dapp and is focused on preventing the following impacts:

  • Deletion of user data
  • Theft of governance funds
  • Thefts and freezing of principal of any amount
  • Thefts and freezing of unclaimed yield of any amount

Rewards by Threat Level

Rewards are distributed according to the impact of the vulnerability based on the Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System V2.2. This is a simplified 5-level scale, with separate scales for websites/apps and smart contracts/blockchains, encompassing everything from consequence of exploitation to privilege required to likelihood of a successful exploit.

A PoC and a suggestion for a fix is required for Critical and High vulnerabilities. Medium level bug reports must come with a suggestion for a fix.

Bugs resulting in temporary freezing of funds are not eligible for a reward.

Payouts are handled by the Instadapp team directly and are denominated in USD. However, payouts are done in stablecoins like, USDC, USDT and DAI at the discretion of the team.

Smart Contract

Critical
Level
USD $50,000 - USD $250,000
Payout
PoC Required
High
Level
USD $5,000 - USD $100,000
Payout
PoC Required

Websites and Applications

Critical
Level
USD $5,000 - USD $50,000
Payout
PoC Required
High
Level
USD $1,000 - $10,000
Payout
PoC Required

Assets in scope

All code of Instadapp can be found at https://github.com/Instadapp. However, only those in the Assets in Scope table are considered as in-scope of the bug bounty program.

All folders and files labeled with the words “test”, “mock/mocks”, or “dummy” are out-of-scope of the bug bounty program.

Impacts in scope

Only the following impacts are accepted within this bug bounty program. All other impacts are not considered as in-scope, even if they affect something in the assets in scope table.

Smart Contract

  • Any governance voting result manipulation
    Critical
    Impact
  • Direct theft of any user funds, whether at-rest or in-motion, other than unclaimed yield (Connectors are out of scope from this)
    Critical
    Impact
  • Permanent freezing of funds
    Critical
    Impact
  • Protocol Insolvency
    Critical
    Impact
  • Theft of unclaimed yield
    High
    Impact
  • Miner-extractable value (MEV)
    High
    Impact
  • Permanent freezing of unclaimed yield
    High
    Impact
  • Temporary freezing of funds (more than 10 Days)
    High
    Impact

Websites and Applications

  • Ability to execute system commands
    Critical
    Impact
  • Extract Sensitive data/files from the server such as /etc/passwd
    Critical
    Impact
  • Bypassing Authentication
    Critical
    Impact
  • Signing transactions for other users
    Critical
    Impact
  • Redirection of user deposits and withdrawals
    Critical
    Impact
  • Subdomain takeover resulting in financial loss (applicable for subdomains with addresses published)
    Critical
    Impact
  • Wallet interaction modification resulting in financial loss
    Critical
    Impact
  • Tampering with transactions submitted to the user’s wallet
    Critical
    Impact
  • Submitting malicious transactions to an already-connected wallet
    Critical
    Impact
  • Spoofing content on the target application (Persistent)
    High
    Impact
  • Users Confidential information disclosure such as Email
    High
    Impact
  • Privilege escalation to access unauthorized functionalities
    High
    Impact
  • Third-Party API keys leakage that demonstrates loss of funds or modification on the website
    High
    Impact
  • Redirecting users to malicious websites (Open Redirect)
    High
    Impact

Out of Scope & Rules

The following vulnerabilities are excluded from the rewards for this bug bounty program:

  • Attacks that the reporter has already exploited themselves, leading to damage
  • Attacks requiring access to leaked keys/credentials
  • Attacks requiring access to privileged addresses (governance, strategist)

Smart Contracts

  • Incorrect data supplied by third party oracles
    • Not to exclude oracle manipulation/flash loan attacks
  • Basic economic governance attacks (e.g. 51% attack)
  • Lack of liquidity
  • Best practice critiques
  • Sybil attacks

Websites and Apps

  • Theoretical vulnerabilities without any proof or demonstration
  • Content spoofing / Text injection issues
  • Self-XSS
  • Captcha bypass using OCR
  • CSRF with no security impact (logout CSRF, change language, etc.)
  • Missing HTTP Security Headers (such as X-FRAME-OPTIONS) or cookie security flags (such as “httponly”)
  • Server-side information disclosure such as IPs, server names, and most stack traces
  • Vulnerabilities used to enumerate or confirm the existence of users or tenants
  • Vulnerabilities requiring unlikely user actions
  • URL Redirects (unless combined with another vulnerability to produce a more severe vulnerability)
  • Lack of SSL/TLS best practices
  • DDoS vulnerabilities
  • Attacks requiring privileged access from within the organization
  • Feature requests
  • Best practices

The following activities are prohibited by this bug bounty program:

  • Any testing with mainnet or public testnet contracts; all testing should be done on private testnets
  • Any testing with pricing oracles or third party smart contracts
  • Attempting phishing or other social engineering attacks against our employees and/or customers
  • Any testing with third-party systems and applications (e.g., browser extensions) as well as websites (e.g., SSO providers, advertising networks)
  • Any denial of service attacks
  • Automated testing of services that generates significant amounts of traffic
  • Public disclosure of an unpatched vulnerability in an embargoed bounty