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Incident · SLOWMIST

Cover Protocol

Contract Vulnerability
Estimated loss
$3.00M
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
LOGIC
LOGICBYTECODE CATCHABLEAI SCANNABLE
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

▰ PROOF OF CONCEPT
DEFIHACKLABS
src/test/2020-12/Cover_exp.sol
view forked test on github ↗

Reproducible Foundry test fork from SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs. Clone the repo, run forge test against the file path above, and replay the exploit against a mainnet fork at the historical block. Use for reproduction only — not for live targets.

Forensic narrative

Twitter netizens said that due to a loophole in the award contract, the coverage agreement lost $3 million. Conversion, the data on the chain shows that attackers (0xf05Ca...943DF) have used the cover contract to issue a total of about 10,000 COVER, and have replaced them with assets such as WBTC and DAI. Later, the blockchain browser showed that the attacker (address label Grap Finance: Deployer) who made a profit of 3 million US dollars by issuing additional COVER returned 4350 ETH to the address labelled YieldFarming.insure: Deployer. CoverProtocol officially tweeted announcing that it will provide a new COVER token based on the snapshot before the breakthrough was repeated. And the 4350 ETH returned by the attacker will also be returned to LP token holders through snapshot processing. Attack method (per SlowMist): Contract Vulnerability. Reported loss: $ 3,000,000.

Primary source
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/12/28/cover-protocol-attack-perpetrated-by-white-hat-funds-returned-hacker-claims/
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
Cover Protocol
bug_class
logic
date_occurred
2020-12-28
loss_usd
$3,000,000
source_id
sm:cover-protocol::2020-12-28
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