CVE-2020-37287
Received Received - Intake

Vyper Call Stack Corruption in Complex Type Handling

Vulnerability report for CVE-2020-37287, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-21

Last updated on: 2026-10-21

Assigner: VulnCheck

Description

Vyper before 0.2.6 contains a call stack corruption vulnerability that causes incorrect function outputs when complex types with non-base members are passed as arguments. Contracts passing multi-dimensional arrays or structs to internal or external functions receive corrupted values because the compiler assumed each subtype size is 32.

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Published
2026-10-21
Last Modified
2026-10-21
Generated
2026-10-21
EPSS Evaluated
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vyperlang vyper 0

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CWE-131 The product does not correctly calculate the size to be used when allocating a buffer, which could lead to a buffer overflow.

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