Submitted by sin1st3r__, also found by Beepidibop and hash
In order to make sense of the vulnerability, we need to understand the token transferral & rental registeration execution flow first.
Step 1: First of all, before the fulfillment process begins, both the lender and the borrower need to approve the Seaport Conduit to spend their tokens on behalf of them. The lender approves the conduit to spend the NFT token which he wants to lend (offer item) and the borrower approves the ERC20 tokens he will use as a payment method for this rental (consideration item).
Step 2: Once the fulfillment process begins, the conduit begins the token transferral process. The conduit transfers the lenders NFT tokens to the borrowers gnosis rental safe, then it transfers the borrowers ERC20 tokens to the Payment Escrow.
Note 1: Keep in mind that the rental is not registered yet..
Note 2: The Seaport Conduit utilizes the safeTransferFrom function to transfer the ERC1155 tokens which will trigger onERC1155Receive hook on the receiver of the ERC1155 tokens, in this case, its the borrowers rental safe. However, when it comes to the transferral of ERC721 tokens, it uses transferFrom and not safeTransferFrom.
Step 3: Once the tokens are transferred, Seaport will communicate with the Zone contract. You can think of the zone contract as a contract holding a callback function which is called after all the swaps are made. The contract which will be holding the callback function to be executed by Seaport is Create.sol and the callback function it is holding, which as I mentioned, will be called by Seaport, is validateOrder().
Step 4: Once the validateOrder() function is called, the rental registeration process will kick in. A series of internal functions will be called inside Create.sol which will verify the signatures of the order data it has received from seaport and then the internal function _rentFromZone will be called and this internal function will actually register the rental. Itll communicate with the Storage module which holds all the rental data and ask it to add the rental.
Step 5: The rental is finally added.
Here is the full execution flow.
Note: to view the provided image, please see the original submission here.
The main vulnerability exists within the fact that reNFT does not register the rental except after swapping the tokens, in addition to safeTransferFrom() being used to transfer ERC1155 tokens, which would of course, trigger the callback function onERC1155Receive() on the borrowers safe.
The combination of those two factors allow for the exploitation of a reentrancy vulnerability allowing an attacker to hijack ANY ERC1155 tokens he rents.
To run the PoC, youll need to do the following:
The files:
An attacker can hijack any ERC1155 token he rents, and the lender wont be able to get the rental funds he should get after rental expiry.
The main problem is that the token transferral occurs before the rental is registered, so the fix I propose is that the lenders ERC1155 tokens be transferred first to a trusted contract which registers the rental and then the trusted contract sends the ERC1155 tokens to the borrowers rental safe after ensuring the rental was registered. This fix would break this exploit.
0xean (Judge) commented:
Alec1017 (reNFT) confirmed and commented:
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reNFT mitigated:
Status: Mitigation confirmed. Full details in reports from EV_om, sin1st3r__ and juancito.
