Common Vulnerabilities

Smart Contracts/Blockchain

  • Re-entrancy
  • Logic errors
    • including user authentication errors
  • Solidity/EVM details not considered
    • including integer over-/under-flow
    • including unhandled exceptions
  • Trusting trust/dependency vulnerabilities
    • including composability vulnerabilities
  • Oracle failure/manipulation
  • Novel governance attacks
  • Economic/financial attacks
    • including flash loan attacks
  • Congestion and scalability
    • including running out of gas
    • including block stuffing
    • including susceptibility to frontrunning
  • Consensus failures
  • Cryptography problems
    • Signature malleability
    • Susceptibility to replay attacks
    • Weak randomness
    • Weak encryption
  • Susceptibility to block timestamp manipulation
  • Missing access controls / unprotected internal or debugging interfaces

Websites and Apps

  • Remote Code Execution
  • Trusting trust/dependency vulnerabilities
  • Vertical Privilege Escalation
  • XML External Entities Injection
  • SQL Injection
  • LFI/RFI
  • Horizontal Privilege Escalation
  • Stored XSS
  • Reflective XSS with impact
  • CSRF with impact
  • Internal SSRF
  • Session fixation
  • Insecure Deserialization
  • Direct object reference
  • DOM XSS
  • SSL misconfigurations
  • SSL/TLS issues (weak crypto, improper setup)
  • URL redirect
  • Clickjacking
  • Misleading Unicode text (e.g. using right to left override characters)