Trail of Bits

Orga and Merk

Type

Security review

Client

Turbofish

Date

2024-11

Domain

Blockchain

Effort

10 wks

Section

Tendermint/Cosmos

Trail of Bits's security review of Turbofish (Nov 2024) identified 7 issues: 1 high, 1 medium, and 5 low.

Findings · 7

  1. 1 Slashing of re-delegated stake is computed incorrectly Medium
  2. 2 Malicious state sync peer can cause syncing nodes to crash Low
  3. 3 Interrupted snapshots can lead to inconsistent state Low
  4. 4 Malicious state sync peer can cause a stack overflow in Merk Low
  5. 5 Merk trunk splitting can lead to panics on degenerate trees Low
  6. 6 Stored IBC consensus states cannot be pruned Low
  7. 7 Merk proofs can be forged to claim arbitrary key/value inclusions High

Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.

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