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Mars Protocol

Mars Protocol consists of a money market, called Red Bank, and a generalized credit primitive called Credit Accounts. Mars Protocol utilizes a so-called hub and outpost topology, whereby its base, Mars Hub - - which is an instance of DAO on Neutron is the command center for Mars outposts. Each outpost can consist of instances of Red Bank and/or Credit Accounts.

Cosmos
Blockchain
DEX
L1
Lending
Staking
Go
Rust
Maximum Bounty
$100,000
Live Since
13 January 2023
Last Updated
06 August 2024
  • PoC required

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Assets in Scope

Target
Type
Added on
Smart Contract - Pertaining to Mars Outposts which are are deployed on the Osmosis and Neutron blockchains
31 January 2023

Impacts in Scope

Critical
Direct theft of any user funds, whether at-rest or in-motion, other than unclaimed yield
Critical
Direct theft of any user NFTs, whether at-rest or in-motion, other than unclaimed royalties
Critical
Unintended alteration of what the NFT represents (e.g. token URI, payload, artistic content)
Critical
Protocol insolvency
Critical
Oracle manipulation and flash loan attacks
High
Theft of unclaimed royalties
High
Freezing of funds
High
Freezing of NFTs (applicable for v2-fields-of-mars/rover only)
Medium
Griefing (e.g. no profit motive for an attacker, but damage to the users or the protocol)
Medium
Freezing of unclaimed yield
Medium
Freezing of unclaimed royalties
Low
Unintended consequences from Maximal-extractable value (MEV) exploration

Out of scope

Program's Out of Scope information

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)
  • Attacks found in an underlying Cosmos SDK standard module dependency (vulnerabilities found in code that is not Mars Protocols code, but Mars Protocol has a dependency on through Cosmos SDK)

Smart Contracts and Blockchain

  • 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
  • Centralization risks
  • Lack of funding for contracts that require topping up from an external address e.g.contracts pertaining to incentives e.t.c. (where applicable)
  • DoS related attacks

The following activities are prohibited by this bug bounty program:

  • Any testing with mainnet contracts; all testing should be done on private testnets. Any testing on public testnets should be done with care to not disclose vulnerabilities to blackhats.
  • 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