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Synthetix

Synthetix provides a building layer that allows other protocols to tap into its universal liquidity pool, offering derivative exposure on an EVM compatible chain.

Base
ETH
Optimism
Defi
DAO
DEX
Perpetuals
Staking
Synthetic Assets
Solidity
Maximum Bounty
$100,000
Live Since
05 March 2021
Last Updated
18 November 2024
  • PoC required

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Assets in Scope

Target
Type
Smart Contract - Governance Module
Added on
25 July 2023
Target
Type
Websites and Applications - https://staking.synthetix.io/ and https://github.com/Synthetixio/js-monorepo/tree/master
Added on
25 July 2023
Target
Type
Websites and Applications - https://governance.synthetix.io/
Added on
25 July 2023
Target
Type
Websites and Applications - https://synthetix.io/
Added on
25 July 2023
Target
Type
Smart Contract - V3
Added on
4 May 2022
Target
Type
Smart Contract - V2x
Added on
4 May 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

Direct theft of collateral from liquidity providers and borrowers (i.e. staked assets)

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct theft of tokens and NFTs from token and NFT holders (i.e. v3 staking position / sUSD / snxUSD /…)

Severity
Critical
Title

Permanent bricking of staking or trading contracts resulting in losses to owners, where the assets can’t be recovered by any means

Severity
Critical
Title

Governance voting result manipulation that could result a critical severity classification

Severity
Critical
Title

Immediate manipulation of the debt of the protocol, not related to oracle price changes, nor related to debt fluctuations from interactions that are within the intended design

Severity
Critical
Title

Immediate protocol Insolvency of liquidity providers

Severity
Critical
Title

Theft of unclaimed yield that can be become claimable by the attacker immediately (i.e. swapped to external assets), or claimable after a period of time where the protocol is unable to safeguard the funds at risk via code updates

Severity
Critical
Title

Execute arbitrary system commands

Severity
Critical
Title

Subdomain takeover with already-connected wallet interaction

Severity
High
Title

Theft of unclaimed yield that can be become claimable by the attacker within 24 hours of the attack

Severity
High
Title

Temporary freezing of funds

Severity
High
Title

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

Out of scope

Program's Out of Scope information
  • Attacks that require altering the configurations of the protocol from the time the vulnerability disclosure is submitted (i.e. listing new assets / changing parameters). However, changes in configuration that are staged to be implemented and have been voted on by governance are considered to be in scope.
  • Security researchers from restricted countries, reference to the terms, are not eligible for bounties regardless of the scope of the vulnerability disclosure
  • Activities that violate the whitehat rules of engagement would result in revocation of the bounty regardless of the disclosure merit.
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
$3k -$100k
High
$10k -$50k
Medium
$10k
Total Assets in Scope
6
Total Impacts in Scope
20