Vyper is a pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum virtual machine. Starting in version 0.3.8 and prior to version 0.4.0b1, when looping over a range of the form range(start, start + N), if start is negative, the execution will always revert. This issue is caused by an incorrect assertion inserted by the code generation of the range stmt.parse_For_range(). The issue arises when start is signed, instead of using sle, le is used and start is interpreted as an unsigned integer for the comparison. If it is a negative number, its 255th bit is set to 1 and is hence interpreted as a very large unsigned integer making the assertion always fail. Any contract having a range(start, start + N) where start is a signed integer with the possibility for start to be negative is affected. If a call goes through the loop while supplying a negative start the execution will revert. Version 0.4.0b1 fixes the issue.
CVE-2024-32481
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.5%, top 18% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 52.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
April 25, 2024
Last Modified
May 5, 2025
References (8)
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/9136169468f317a53b4e7448389aa315f90b95ba/vyper/codegen/stmt.py#L286-L287
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/3de1415ee77a9244eb04bdb695e249d3ec9ed868
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/5319cfbe14951e007ccdb323257e5ada869b35d5
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/security/advisories/GHSA-ppx5-q359-pvwj
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/9136169468f317a53b4e7448389aa315f90b95ba/vyper/codegen/stmt.py#L286-L287
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/3de1415ee77a9244eb04bdb695e249d3ec9ed868
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/commit/5319cfbe14951e007ccdb323257e5ada869b35d5
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/security/advisories/GHSA-ppx5-q359-pvwj
Affected Packages
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PyPI(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| vyper | 0.3.10 ... 0.3.9 (8 versions) | 0.4.0b1 | — |
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