CVE-2023-32059 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-32059

Vyper vulnerable to incorrect ordering of arguments for kwargs passed to internal calls

Vulnerability Description

Vyper is a Pythonic smart contract language for the Ethereum virtual machine. Prior to version 0.3.8, internal calls with default arguments are compiled incorrectly. Depending on the number of arguments provided in the call, the defaults are added not right-to-left, but left-to-right. If the types are incompatible, typechecking is bypassed. The ability to pass kwargs to internal functions is an undocumented feature that is not well known about. The issue is patched in version 0.3.8.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

vyper
Vulnerable Versions:
< 0.3.8

Timeline

Official Publish: May 11th, 2023
Last Modified: January 24th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-683

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.