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← back to feed·FLASHLOAN2021-08-31 · 4y ago
Incident · SLOWMIST

Cream Finance

Flash loan attack
Estimated loss
$2.30M
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
FLASHLOAN
FLASHLOANBYTECODE 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/2021-08/Cream_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

The mortgage lending platform Cream Finance had a flash loan attack. In its post-mortem analysis report on the flash loan attack, it stated that a total of 460 million AMP tokens and 2804 ETH (worth approximately US$34 million at the time) were stolen from the vulnerability and promised 20% of all agreed fees will be used for repayment until it is fully repaid. This security incident has a major vulnerability attacker and an imitator. On October 4, according to a Cointelegraph report, DeFi security agency Lossless has assisted in recovering the stolen 5152.6 ETH worth nearly $16.7 million. Attack method (per SlowMist): Flash loan attack. Reported loss: $ 2,300,000.

Primary source
https://medium.com/cream-finance/c-r-e-a-m-finance-post-mortem-amp-exploit-6ceb20a630c5
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
Cream Finance
bug_class
flashloan
date_occurred
2021-08-31
loss_usd
$2,300,000
source_id
sm:cream-finance::2021-08-31
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