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Visor allowed certain contracts to mint unlimited rewards.

Yesterday an anonymous actor took advantage of this gift, and withdrew 8.8M VISR from the platform, worth $8.2M at pre-hack prices.

However, the hacker suffered when dumping VISR via Uniswap’s VISR-ETH pool.

-87%

rekt.

Back in June, Visor, a liquidity management protocol for Uni v3, downplayed the loss of $500k (of its then $3M TVL) in a security breach.

Then, last month, the project fell victim to what the Visor team defensively claimed was “economic arbitrage”.

Does “reliance on spot prices for issuing shares” not count as a smart contract bug?…

What was it this time?

Hacker’s address: 0x8efab89b497b887cdaa2fb08ff71e4b3827774b2

Funded by Tornado Cash a few mins before the execution of the attack.

Due to a vulnerable require() check in the vVISR Rewards Contract’s deposit() function, the hacker was able to mint unlimited shares using their own contract.

As long as the hacker passes their own contract as “from” and the contract has an Owner() method of msg.sender, then they can mint as many shares as they want to any address using vvisr.mint().

Credit: @storming0x

The attacker transferred ownership of the contract to its own address, before executing the exploit transaction, minting 195k vVISR tokens.

These were then burned for 8.8M VISR before being swapped via Uniswap v2 for ETH and washed via Tornado Cash in this and 6 subsequent transactions totalling 113 ETH ($450k) so far.

In their official post-mortem, Visor has proposed a token migration based on a snapshot before the exploit.

They also state that:

“We are engaged with both Quantstamp and ConsenSys Diligence for December and January audits and this new staking contract will be included.”

As the users are to be refunded, it seems the only damage done is to the reputation of the Visor team.

At least they are gaining experience in post-hack PR…

As BlockSec wrote on Twitter:

“Since last time an attack was called arbitrage, can we call it an airdrop this time?”

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