CVE-2021-48020
Received Received - Intake

Memory Corruption in Vyper Smart Contract Language

Vulnerability report for CVE-2021-48020, 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 from 0.1.0b4 before 0.3.0 contains a memory corruption vulnerability caused by an incorrect stack tip pointer when internal function calls are performed inside arrays. Contracts placing internal calls in nested array elements, external call arguments, struct literals, or raw_log topics can have memory corrupted, producing incorrect contract behavior.

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Published
2026-10-21
Last Modified
2026-10-21
Generated
2026-10-21
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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vyperlang vyper 0.1.0b4

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CWE-787 The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

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