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Incident · SLOWMIST

SushiSwap

Unchecked Input Data
Estimated loss
$3.34M
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
Undisclosed
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/2023-04/Sushi_Router_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

SUSHI RouteProcessor2 was attacked and lost about 1800 ETH, about $3.34 million. According to the analysis of SlowMist, the root cause is that ProcessRoute does not perform any checks on the route parameters passed in by the user, which leads the attacker to use this problem to construct a malicious route parameter so that the Pool read by the contract is created by the attacker. On April 19, SushiSwap released a postmortem analysis report stating that due to 18 replayed transactions, the 1,800 WETH initially depleted from the first user’s wallet ended up in multiple wallets. A total of 885 ETH have been refunded so far. Of these, approximately 685 ETH were sent to Sushi core contributors to operate the multisig, 190 ETH were sent to affected users, and 10 ETH were sent to the Sushi rescue contract. Attack method (per SlowMist): Unchecked Input Data. Reported loss: $ 3,340,000.

Primary source
https://twitter.com/SlowMist_Team/status/1644936375924584449
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
SushiSwap
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2023-04-09
loss_usd
$3,340,000
source_id
sm:sushiswap::2023-04-09
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