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Nexus Mutual

Nexus Mutual is a cutting-edge decentralized insurance alternative that operates on the Ethereum blockchain. It serves as a groundbreaking community-led protocol that offers transparent and flexible options for its members to buy cover, underwrite risk, assess claims, and build risk management businesses.

ETH
Defi
Insurance
Solidity
Maximum Bounty
$50,000
Live Since
23 February 2021
Last Updated
11 November 2024
  • PoC required

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Assets in Scope

Target
Primacy Of Impact
Type
Smart Contract
Added on
11 November 2023
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Master Branch
Added on
11 November 2023
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Release candidate Branch
Added on
18 February 2022

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.

Severity
Critical
Title

Manipulation of governance voting, resulting in deviation from voted outcome - must bypass Advisory Board privileges that could otherwise mitigate the situation

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct theft of any user funds, whether at-rest or in-motion, other than unclaimed yield

Severity
Critical
Title

Permanent freezing of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Protocol insolvency

Severity
High
Title

Theft of unclaimed yield

Severity
High
Title

Permanent freezing of unclaimed yield

Severity
High
Title

Temporary freezing of funds

Severity
Medium
Title

Smart contract unable to operate due to lack of token funds

Severity
Medium
Title

Block stuffing

Severity
Medium
Title

Griefing (e.g. no profit motive for an attacker, but damage to the users or the protocol)

Severity
Medium
Title

Theft of gas

Severity
Medium
Title

Unbounded gas consumption

Out of scope

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
$25k -$50k
High
$10k -$25k
Medium
$10k
Low
$2k
Total Assets in Scope
3
Total Impacts in Scope
13