Breaking Aave Upgradeability
blog.trailofbits.com | vulnerability | #smart-contracts | #defi | #vulnerability-disclosure | #blockchain | #aave | #delegatecall | #upgradeability
Summary
Trail of Bits found a critical bug in Aave's live contracts: public initializers on the LendingPool proxy enabled arbitrary delegatecall. Aave mitigated it within an hour of disclosure.
- Published
- Collected
--- id: 1826 title: "Breaking Aave Upgradeability" source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/12/16/breaking-aave-upgradeability/" published_at: "2020-12-16T16:01:55Z" tags: ["smart-contracts", "defi", "vulnerability-disclosure", "blockchain", "aave", "delegatecall", "upgradeability"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1826" lang: en --- # Breaking Aave Upgradeability ## Summary Trail of Bits found a critical bug in Aave's live contracts: public initializers on the LendingPool proxy enabled arbitrary delegatecall. Aave mitigated it within an hour of disclosure. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com - **Published:** 2020-12-16T16:01:55Z - **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/12/16/breaking-aave-upgradeability/ - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1826