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Axelar Network

Axelar Network is a decentralized interoperability network connecting all blockchains, assets and apps through a universal set of protocols and APIs.

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Avalanche
BSC
Base
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Celo
Centrifuge
ETH
Fantom
Filecoin
Fraxtal
Kava
Linea
Mantle
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Blockchain
Defi
Maximum Bounty
$2,250,000
Live Since
11 March 2022
Last Updated
03 December 2024
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  • KYC required

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Assets in Scope

Target
Type
Smart Contract - Interchain Token Service contract address (all chains)
Added on
24 January 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Infrastructure - GMP SDK
Added on
24 January 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Interchain Governance Contract
Added on
24 January 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Infrastructure - Axelar EVM Gateway
Added on
24 January 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Interchain Token Service
Added on
23 January 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - AXL token address
Added on
23 January 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Interchain Token Factory contract address proxy (all chains)
Added on
23 January 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Binance axlUSDC token address
Added on
24 August 2022
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Binance Axelar Gateway contract address Proxy
Added on
24 August 2022
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Axelarcrypto library
Added on
13 May 2022
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Infrastructure - Axelar signer
Added on
13 May 2022
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Infrastructure - Axelar core protocol
Added on
13 May 2022

Impacts in Scope

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct loss of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Cryptographic vulnerabilities

Severity
Critical
Title

Privilege escalation resulting in a severe impact

Severity
Critical
Title

Unauthorized mint/burn/transfer of wrapped assets

Severity
Critical
Title

Insolvency

Severity
Critical
Title

Permanent freezing of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct theft of any user funds, whether at-rest or in-motion

Severity
High
Title

Network not being able to confirm new transactions (Total network shutdown)

Severity
High
Title

Unintended permanent chain split requiring hard fork (Network partition requiring hard fork)

Severity
High
Title

Freezing of funds (fix requires hardfork on Axelar)

Severity
High
Title

Non-determinism in the network and consensus failure

Severity
High
Title

Transient consensus failures

Out of scope

Program's Out of Scope information

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

  • Third party dependencies, especially Cosmos SDK dependencies
  • In the tofn repository, the only thing in scope is src/ecdsa/mod.rs and it’s project dependencies, excluding third-party dependencies
  • In the tofnd repository, the only thing in scope is parts related to src/ecdsa/mod.rs in tofn repository
  • Off-chain components, such as relayer, and vald, are out of scope. Any reports related to these will only be accepted at the discretion of the project.
Default Out of Scope and rules

Smart Contract specific

  • Incorrect data supplied by third party oracles
    • Not to exclude oracle manipulation/flash loan attacks
  • Impacts requiring basic economic and governance attacks (e.g. 51% attack)
  • Lack of liquidity impacts
  • Impacts from Sybil attacks
  • Impacts involving centralization risks

All categories

  • Impacts requiring attacks that the reporter has already exploited themselves, leading to damage
  • Impacts caused by attacks requiring access to leaked keys/credentials
  • Impacts caused by attacks requiring access to privileged addresses (including, but not limited to: governance and strategist contracts) without additional modifications to the privileges attributed
  • Impacts relying on attacks involving the depegging of an external stablecoin where the attacker does not directly cause the depegging due to a bug in code
  • Mentions of secrets, access tokens, API keys, private keys, etc. in Github will be considered out of scope without proof that they are in-use in production
  • Best practice recommendations
  • Feature requests
  • Impacts on test files and configuration files unless stated otherwise in the bug bounty program
  • Impacts requiring phishing or other social engineering attacks against project's employees and/or customers
Severity
Min. - Max.
Critical
$2.2M
High
$10k -$50k
Medium
$5k
Low
$1k
Total Assets in Scope
22
Total Impacts in Scope
27