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Audit name:

[SCA] Venus | DEX | May2023

Date:

Jun 24, 2023

Table of Content

Introduction
Audit Summary
Document Information
System Overview
Executive Summary
Findings
Appendix 1. Severity Definitions
Appendix 2. Scope
Disclaimer

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Introduction

We express our gratitude to the Venus team for the collaborative engagement that enabled the execution of this Smart Contract Security Assessment.

Venus is a decentralized finance (DeFi) algorithmic money market protocol on BNB Chain. Decentralized lending pools are very similar to traditional lending services offered by banks, except that they are offered by P2P decentralized platforms. Users can leverage assets by borrowing and lending assets listed in a pool. Lending pools help crypto holders earn a substantial income through interest paid on their supplied assets and access assets they don't currently own without selling any of their portfolio.

titlecontent
PlatformEVM
LanguageSolidity
TagsDEX
Timeline03/05/2023 - 26/06/2023
Methodologyhttps://hackenio.cc/sc_methodology

    Review Scope

    Repositoryhttps://github.com/VenusProtocol/venus-protocol
    Commitbe743caf07c8b15496524db5bac594754d85cc2a

    Audit Summary

    Total9.5/10
    Security Score

    10/10

    Test Coverage

    90.48%

    Code Quality Score

    10/10

    Documentation Quality Score

    9/10

    7Total Findings
    4Resolved
    0Accepted
    2Mitigated

    The system users should acknowledge all the risks summed up in the risks section of the report

    Document Information

    This report may contain confidential information about IT systems and the intellectual property of the Customer, as well as information about potential vulnerabilities and methods of their exploitation.

    The report can be disclosed publicly after prior consent by another Party. Any subsequent publication of this report shall be without mandatory consent.

    Document

    NameSmart Contract Code Review and Security Analysis Report for Venus
    Audited ByHacken
    Websitehttps://venus.io/
    Changelog10/05/2023 - Initial Review
    26/06/2023 - Second Review
    • Document

      Name
      Smart Contract Code Review and Security Analysis Report for Venus
      Audited By
      Hacken
      Changelog
      10/05/2023 - Initial Review
      26/06/2023 - Second Review

    System Overview

    The audit consists of a pegged token stability contract that is used to help peg the price of VAI to 1$ which is the ERC20 token for the Venus ecosystem.

    The contract aims to achieve this by providing a swapping functionality of the VAI token with USDT and USDC tokens by also validating their current prices using oracles. The intended swapping logic can be visualized by the following figure:

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    This way, even if the pegged token used to ensure VAI is pegged to 1$ gets corrupted, VAI will not be affected as much.

    The platform also takes a fee from all swaps in the form of VAI. The VAI outside of the fee is burned when swapping for pegged tokens, and it’s minted when pegged tokens are being swapped for VAI.

    The files in the scope:

    • PegStability.sol: The contract that has the swapping mechanism between VAI and the chosen stable token. This contract interacts with price oracles to ensure the intended logic is implemented. The swapped pegged tokens are stored in this contract.

    • AccessControlledV8.sol: An access control mechanism for the Venus ecosystem that allows certain addresses to perform certain actions, all controlled by the owner of this contract.

    Privileged roles

    • Owner: Can give certain permissions to addresses such as; pause contract, resume contract, set fees, set VAI token mint cap, set treasury for fee collection, and set comptroller (contract which stores the priceOracle address).

    • User: Can swap pegged tokens for VAI tokens and vice versa.

    • Access Allowed Addresses: Addresses given access by the owner of the contract can: pause contract, resume contract, set fees, set VAI token mint cap, set treasury for fee collection, and set comptroller (contract which stores the priceOracle address) according to the access they are given.

    Executive Summary

    Documentation quality

    The total Documentation quality score is 9 out of 10.

    • Functional requirements are present.

    • Technical description is partially missing. There is undocumented logic and interfaces.

    • NatSpec is sufficient.

    • Development environment description is given.

    Code quality

    The total Code quality score is 10 out of 10.

    • Style guides are followed.

    • Code is well-written and well-designed.

    Test coverage

    Code coverage of the project is 90.48% (branch coverage).

    • Deployment and basic user interactions are covered with tests.

    • Negative cases are covered.

    • Interactions with several users are not tested thoroughly.

    Security score

    Upon auditing, the code was found to contain 1 critical, 1 high, 1 medium, and 1 low severity issues. Out of these, 2 issues have been addressed and resolved, leading to a Security score of 10 out of 10.

    All identified issues are detailed in the “Findings” section of this report.

    Summary

    The comprehensive audit of the customer's smart contract yields an overall score of 9.5. This score reflects the combined evaluation of documentation, code quality, test coverage, and security aspects of the project.

    Findings

    Code
    Title
    Status
    Severity
    F-2023-0755Incorrect Mathematical Operation
    fixed

    Critical
    F-2023-0756Unverifiable Logic
    mitigated

    High
    F-2023-0757Check-Effect-Interaction
    mitigated

    Medium
    F-2023-0758 Undocumented Logic
    fixed

    Low
    I-2023-0198Test Coverage
    unfixed

    Observation
    I-2023-0197 Environmental Consistency
    fixed

    Observation
    I-2023-0196Style Guide Violation - Order of Layout
    fixed

    Observation
    1-7 of 7 findings

    Identify vulnerabilities in your smart contracts.

    Appendix 1. Severity Definitions

    When auditing smart contracts, Hacken is using a risk-based approach that considers Likelihood, Impact, Exploitability and Complexity metrics to evaluate findings and score severities.

    Reference on how risk scoring is done is available through the repository in our Github organization:

    Severity

    Description

    Critical
    Critical vulnerabilities are usually straightforward to exploit and can lead to the loss of user funds or contract state manipulation.

    High
    High vulnerabilities are usually harder to exploit, requiring specific conditions, or have a more limited scope, but can still lead to the loss of user funds or contract state manipulation.

    Medium
    Medium vulnerabilities are usually limited to state manipulations and, in most cases, cannot lead to asset loss. Contradictions and requirements violations. Major deviations from best practices are also in this category.

    Low
    Major deviations from best practices or major Gas inefficiency. These issues will not have a significant impact on code execution, do not affect security score but can affect code quality score.
    • Severity

      Critical

      Description

      Critical vulnerabilities are usually straightforward to exploit and can lead to the loss of user funds or contract state manipulation.

      Severity

      High

      Description

      High vulnerabilities are usually harder to exploit, requiring specific conditions, or have a more limited scope, but can still lead to the loss of user funds or contract state manipulation.

      Severity

      Medium

      Description

      Medium vulnerabilities are usually limited to state manipulations and, in most cases, cannot lead to asset loss. Contradictions and requirements violations. Major deviations from best practices are also in this category.

      Severity

      Low

      Description

      Major deviations from best practices or major Gas inefficiency. These issues will not have a significant impact on code execution, do not affect security score but can affect code quality score.

    Appendix 2. Scope

    The scope of the project includes the following smart contracts from the provided repository:

    Scope Details

    Repositoryhttps://github.com/VenusProtocol/venus-protocol
    Commitbe743caf07c8b15496524db5bac594754d85cc2a
    WhitepaperProvided
    RequirementsProvided
    Technical RequirementsProvided

    Contracts in Scope

    @venusprotocol
    governance-contracts
    contracts
    Governance
    AccessControlledV8.sol - @venusprotocol › governance-contracts › contracts › Governance › AccessControlledV8.sol
    contracts
    PegStability
    PegStability.sol - contracts › PegStability › PegStability.sol

    Disclaimer