TradeTrap: Arbitrary Total Supply Manipulation in Target Coin (TGT) ERC20 Token Contract

TradeTrap: Arbitrary Total Supply Manipulation in Target Coin (TGT) ERC20 Token Contract

CVE-2018-12081 · MEDIUM Severity

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The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for Target Coin (TGT), a tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, has no period constraint, which allows the owner to increase the total supply of the digital assets arbitrarily so as to make profits, aka the "tradeTrap" issue.

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