OMNI Real Estate Hack
Incident Overview
The OMNI Real Estate Token (ORT) protocol was exploited using smart contract vulnerability approximately for $70k USD.
The key to the attack was insufficient argument validation and imperfection of calculations in the StakingPool contract. In this case function _check_Reward returns the wrong output amount and led to the unfair ORT rewards distribution. Then ORT tokens were swapper to BNB.
The attacker's profit is approximately 236BNB.
Attacker address:
https://bscscan.com/address/0x9bbd9450…90255e
https://bscscan.com/address/0xda5919bf…78d528
Attacker contract:
https://bscscan.com/address/0xdD87D807…BF531B
1st exploiting tx:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x49bed801…aa7613
2nd exploiting tx:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xa916674f…bd0e97
Incident Report
Protocol Information
Market Context at Time of Hack
What the Attacker Needed to Succeed
Understanding the prerequisites for this type of attack helps auditors identify protocols that are most at risk and helps developers build better defenses.
What Auditors Should Check
If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to OMNI Real Estate, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (January 2023).
- Verify all logic paths related to Other are guarded by proper access controls and input validation
- Review privileged functions (owner, admin, governance) for potential abuse vectors - centralization risks should be documented and bounded with timelocks or multi-sigs
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