Incident Overview
Steadefi is an undercollateralized leveraged yield protocol that allows DeFi users to earn yield profitably in any market conditions. It provides automated risk and position management, along with various strategies for different market outlooks: delta long, neutral and short. Currently on Arbitrum and Avalanche with strategies to GMXv2 GM pools.
Incident Report
Protocol Information
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 Steadefi, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (August 2023).
- Verify all logic paths related to Deployer Wallet Compromised are guarded by proper access controls and input validation - see the Access Control Attacks attack class for patterns
- 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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Related Attack Classes
The technique used in this hack maps to these vulnerability classes in our security curriculum:
Sources & References
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