The tradeTrap Vulnerability: Exploiting the Sell Function in Target Coin (TGT) Smart Contract

The tradeTrap Vulnerability: Exploiting the Sell Function in Target Coin (TGT) Smart Contract

CVE-2018-12068 · MEDIUM Severity

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The sell function of a smart contract implementation for Target Coin (TGT), a tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the seller, because of overflow of the multiplication of its argument amount and a manipulable variable sellPrice, aka the "tradeTrap" issue.

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