CVE-2018-10299 — An integer overflow in the batchTransfer function of a smart contract implementa

An integer overflow in the batchTransfer function of a smart contract implementation for Beauty Ecosystem Coin (BEC), the Ethereum ERC20 token used in the Beauty Chain economic system, allows attackers to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing two _rec

01What is this vulnerability?

An integer overflow in the batchTransfer function of a smart contract implementation for Beauty Ecosystem Coin (BEC), the Ethereum ERC20 token used in the Beauty Chain economic system, allows attackers to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing two _receivers arguments in conjunction with a large _value argument, as exploited in the wild in April 2018, aka the…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-04-23T04:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:39:06.257Z

09References

• medium.com — https://medium.com/secbit-media/a-disastrous-vulnerability-found-in-smart-contra…
• twitter.com — https://twitter.com/OKEx_/status/987967343983714304
• www.reddit.com — https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8esyg9/okex_erc20_bug/
• dasp.co — https://dasp.co/#item-3
• peckshield.com — https://peckshield.com/2018/04/22/batchOverflow/
• support.okex.com — https://support.okex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002944212-BeautyChain-BEC-Withdraw…