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Babylon Labs

Babylon introduces a new major utility for Bitcoin: trustless and self-custodial staking. The Babylon Bitcoin staking protocol turns Bitcoin into a stakable and slashable asset for any Proof-of-Stake systems. This allows Bitcoin HODLERs to hold their Bitcoins while earning staking rewards from the PoS systems for the slashable security they provide, in the same way as how native PoS token staking works.

Bitcoin
Infrastructure
Staking
Go
Typescript
JavaScript
Rust
Maximum Bounty
$2,000,000
Live Since
16 September 2024
Last Updated
17 January 2025
  • Triaged by Immunefi

  • PoC required

  • KYC required

  • Arbitration enabled

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Assets in Scope

Target
Primacy Of Impact
Type
Websites and Applications
Added on
7 January 2025
Target
Primacy Of Impact
Type
Blockchain/DLT
Added on
7 January 2025
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Golang BTC Staking Library
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - TypeScript BTC Staking Library
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Bitcoin Staking Indexer
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Staking Queue Client
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Staking Expiration Checker Micro-Service
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Covenant Emulator Signer Program
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Unbonding Pipeline Process
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - CLI Staking Program
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - CLI EOTS Manager Program
Added on
16 September 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Parameters Parser
Added on
16 September 2024

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.

For the Unbonding Pipeline Process, the following code components and branches are in-scope:

Everything here https://github.com/babylonlabs-io/cli-tools/blob/v0.2.x/, except the following test commands:

For the EOTS Manager program, the following code components and branches are in-scope:

https://github.com/babylonlabs-io/finality-provider/tree/v0.4.x/eotsmanager – only code associated with the eotsd init, eotsd keys add, eotsd sign-schnorr, and the eotsd verify-schnorr-sig commands is in scope. The EOTS manager daemon functionality is not in scope.

Severity
Critical
Title

Execute arbitrary system commands

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct loss of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Subdomain takeover with already-connected wallet interaction

Severity
Critical
Title

Permanent freezing of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Retrieve the private key of a covenant committee member

Severity
Critical
Title

Leakage of EOTS private keys without the holder double-signing

Severity
Critical
Title

Taking state-modifying authenticated actions (with or without blockchain state interaction) on behalf of other users without any interaction by that user, such as: Making trades

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct theft of user funds or causing their freezing

Severity
Critical
Title

Retrieve sensitive data/files from a running server, such as: /etc/shadow, database passwords, blockchain keys (this does not include non-sensitive environment variables, open source code, or usernames etc with no operational impact)

Severity
Critical
Title

Malicious interactions with an already-connected wallet without user interaction, such as: Modifying transaction arguments or parameters, Submitting malicious transactions

Severity
High
Title

Subdomain takeover without already-connected wallet interaction

Severity
High
Title

Generation of invalid EOTS keys

Out of scope

Program's Out of Scope information

Additional Blockchain/DLT Specific:

  • Impacts involving centralization risks
  • Impacts involving Bitcoin not being live or safe.
  • Impacts involving a quorum of the covenant committee being malicious.
  • Impacts involving a quorum of the covenant committee not being able to be reached due to a full quorum not being live.
  • Impacts involving the confirmation depth on the global parameters being set to an improperly low value.
  • Impacts involving a user’s staking transaction being included in a Bitcoin block in which different global parameters than the ones the user used apply.

Prohibited Activities:

  • Any testing on mainnet or public testnet deployed code; all testing should be done on local-forks of either public testnet or mainnet
  • Any testing with pricing oracles, third-party smart contracts or cloud services
  • Attempting phishing or other social engineering attacks against our employees, and/or customers, service providers and community members
  • 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 that are executed against project assets
  • Automated testing of services that generates significant amounts of traffic
  • Public disclosure of an unpatched vulnerability in an embargoed bounty
Default Out of Scope and rules

Blockchain/DLT 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
$10k -$2M
High
$10k -$200k
Medium
$5k -$20k
Low
$1k -$5k
Total Assets in Scope
14
Total Impacts in Scope
36