Security Audit
April 25th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Presented by 0xMacro
This document includes the results of the security audit for thirdweb's smart contract code as found in the section titled ‘Source Code’. The security audit was performed by the Macro security team from April 7 to April 17, 2025.
The purpose of this audit is to review the source code of certain thirdweb Solidity contracts, and provide feedback on the design, architecture, and quality of the source code with an emphasis on validating the correctness and security of the software in its entirety.
Disclaimer: While Macro’s review is comprehensive and has surfaced some changes that should be made to the source code, this audit should not solely be relied upon for security, as no single audit is guaranteed to catch all possible bugs.
The following is an aggregation of issues found by the Macro Audit team:
Severity | Count | Acknowledged | Won't Do | Addressed |
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Medium | 3 | - | - | 3 |
Low | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Code Quality | 4 | 2 | - | 2 |
Informational | 1 | - | - | - |
thirdweb was quick to respond to these issues.
Our understanding of the specification was based on the following sources:
The following source code was reviewed during the audit:
c1726ac7c04e723a488db15e768245dfe92d81e4
d7dbdeb4df087b821bb5c4c9e74f2ab299d88efb
d7dbdeb4df087b821bb5c4c9e74f2ab299d88efb
We audited the changes related to the following repositories.
contracts-pay-gateway repository:
Source Code | SHA256 |
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./src/UniversalBridgeProxy.sol |
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./src/UniversalBridgeV1.sol |
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contracts-modular-account repository:
Source Code | SHA256 |
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./src/7702/MinimalAccount.sol |
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./src/lib/SessionLib.sol |
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./src/paymaster/BasePaymasterV6.sol |
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./src/paymaster/BasePaymasterV7.sol |
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./src/paymaster/VerifyingPaymasterV6.sol |
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./src/paymaster/VerifyingPaymasterV7.sol |
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contracts-zksync repository:
Source Code | SHA256 |
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./contracts/SignatureBasedPaymaster.sol |
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Note: This document contains an audit solely of the Solidity contracts listed above. Specifically, the audit pertains only to the contracts themselves, and does not pertain to any other programs or scripts, including deployment scripts.
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TransactionInitiated
event may not emit the actual amount used for native transactions
We quantify issues in three parts:
This third part – the severity level – is a summary of how much consideration the client should give to fixing the issue. We assign severity according to the table of guidelines below:
Severity | Description |
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(C-x) Critical |
We recommend the client must fix the issue, no matter what, because not fixing would mean significant funds/assets WILL be lost. |
(H-x) High |
We recommend the client must address the issue, no matter what, because not fixing would be very bad, or some funds/assets will be lost, or the code’s behavior is against the provided spec. |
(M-x) Medium |
We recommend the client to seriously consider fixing the issue, as the implications of not fixing the issue are severe enough to impact the project significantly, albiet not in an existential manner. |
(L-x) Low |
The risk is small, unlikely, or may not relevant to the project in a meaningful way. Whether or not the project wants to develop a fix is up to the goals and needs of the project. |
(Q-x) Code Quality |
The issue identified does not pose any obvious risk, but fixing could improve overall code quality, on-chain composability, developer ergonomics, or even certain aspects of protocol design. |
(I-x) Informational |
Warnings and things to keep in mind when operating the protocol. No immediate action required. |
(G-x) Gas Optimizations |
The presented optimization suggestion would save an amount of gas significant enough, in our opinion, to be worth the development cost of implementing it. |
One of the key changes introduced to the previously audited PayGateway contract, now UniversalBridgeV1, was removing the signature-based scheme for the function initiateTransaction()
. By removing this, the _verifyTransferStart()
internal function no longer checks that the transactionId
has not been processed.
- // verify data
- if (!_verifyTransferStart(req, signature)) {
- revert PayGatewayVerificationFailed();
- }
// mark the pay request as processed
PayGatewayModuleStorage.data().processed[req.transactionId] = true;
PayGatewayModule.sol#L198-L204
This allows the transactionId
to be replayed or reused for different transaction payloads, breaking the uniqueness of transaction ids and corrupting the data consistency tracker identifier, potentially for multiple clients or apps that could use the universal bridge contract.
Remediations to Consider:
Consider validating that the transactionId
has not been processed before setting it to true.
In MinimalAccount.sol
, since the processed
mapping is shared for both executeWithSig
and createSessionWithSig
, and the wrappedCalls.uid
alongside the sessionSpec.uid
are arbitrary inputs (different from the sessionUid
calculated and stored when adding a session based on the session parameters). This allows any valid signer to deny a UID by executing a function within its allowed constraints.
Remediation to Consider:
Consider separating processed UID for session generation and signer execution.
While executing the parameter validation for signers, the current MinimalAccount
and SessionLib
implementations loop through all wrapped calls and validate their constraints and limits with the corresponding session spec signer. However, the SessionLib
logic does not reverts and returns false
or true
for invalid and valid checks, respectively.
Test test_revert_callPolicy_erc20Transfer_wrongSelector
should revert in the selector check, but it reverts in the target address check.
calls[0].data = abi.encodeCall(MockERC20.mint, (address(0x1234), 100));
Test test_revert_callPolicy_erc20Transfer_crossTxLimit
should revert in the limit checks, but it reverts in the target address check.
calls[0].data = abi.encodeCall(ERC20.transfer, (address(0x1234), wrongAmount));
Additionally, since all errors revert with InvalidSignature
, debugging and troubleshooting will be difficult.
Remediations to Consider
Consider using custom errors for each validation step, as all calls must be valid within session constraints and limits to execute calls.
In MinimalAccount
, when creating a new session, the sessionUid
is calculated using the signer address and the block.timestamp
to map and store the proper session data, transfer, and call policies. This creates a unique identifier for the signer’s session. If the EOA owner changes the signers session later, the policies will change to the new session UID.
bytes32 sessionUid = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(sessionSpec.signer, block.timestamp));
_minimalAccountStorage().sessionIds[sessionSpec.signer] = sessionUid;
_minimalAccountStorage().allSigners.add(sessionSpec.signer);
_minimalAccountStorage().sessionExpiration[sessionUid] = sessionSpec.expiresAt;
_minimalAccountStorage().isWildcard[sessionUid] = sessionSpec.isWildcard;
for (uint256 i = 0; i < sessionSpec.callPolicies.length; i++) {
_minimalAccountStorage().callPolicies[sessionUid].push(sessionSpec.callPolicies[i]);
bytes32 targetHash = keccak256(
abi.encodePacked(sessionSpec.callPolicies[i].target, sessionSpec.callPolicies[i].selector, sessionUid)
);
_minimalAccountStorage().targetCallPolicy[targetHash] = sessionSpec.callPolicies[i];
if (sessionSpec.callPolicies[i].selector == bytes4(0x00000000)) {
_minimalAccountStorage().anySelectorForTarget[sessionUid][sessionSpec.callPolicies[i].target] = true;
}
}
for (uint256 i = 0; i < sessionSpec.transferPolicies.length; i++) {
_minimalAccountStorage().transferPolicies[sessionUid].push(sessionSpec.transferPolicies[i]);
bytes32 targetHash = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(sessionSpec.transferPolicies[i].target, sessionUid));
_minimalAccountStorage().targetTransferPolicy[targetHash] = sessionSpec.transferPolicies[i];
}
Although unlikely, if a user submits two session specs for the same signer in the same block, the sessionUid
will be the same. This could override the session expiration parameter that might not be intended to be the same for these session specs.
Remediations to Consider:
Consider adding the session parameters to the sessionUid hash to replace the previous policies and avoid this edge case completely, or documenting this potential pitfall.
The developer fee is currently passed to the initiateTransaction()
function call as a dynamic parameter, and it’s charged on top of the amounts intended to be swapped or bridged. This parameter is not capped to any value, potentially being higher than the maximum BPS coefficient, charging more than the actual token amount. It’s up to developers and integrators to properly set this value.
TransactionInitiated
event may not emit the actual amount used for native transactions
In the UniversalBridgeV1
contract, for native token calls, initiateTransaction()
could emit a token amount
different from the one used for the forwardAddress
call. The logic only ensures the sendValue
is higher or equal to the tokenAmount
properly as a sanity check, but the emitted event TransactionInitiated
only logs the token amount, which may not be completely transparent. Consider emitting the msg.value
to track all used parameters easily.
In the MinimalAccount
contract, passing an empty array of calls in the wrappedCalls
parameter, when calling the execute()
call, will silently succeed and emit events without executing any calls, generating ambiguous logs. Consider adding a length check to ensure at least one call is provided.
Consider adding a view function to check whether a signer has wildcard permissions, enabling off-chain components to query signer status.
In VerifyingPaymasterV7.sol
the UserOperationLib
is imported twice; consider removing the duplicated import.
import {UserOperationLib} from "account-abstraction-v0.7/core/UserOperationLib.sol";
import {UserOperationLib as UserOperationLibV07} from "account-abstraction-v0.7/core/UserOperationLib.sol";
Paymaster versions have an inconsistent encoding order for _userOp.callData
and _userOp.initCode
parameters, which are shared across both versions. Consider using the same order for both to keep it consistent.
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