CVE-2026-42278

UltraDAG: Smart Account Spending Policy Bypass via Pockets

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
May 8, 2026
Updated
May 8, 2026
Reserved
Apr 26, 2026

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Description

UltraDAG is a minimal DAG-BFT blockchain in Rust. Prior to commit fb6ef59, the UltraDAG StateEngine implementation of SmartTransferTx contains a critical logic flaw in its policy enforcement pipeline. When a transaction originates from a "Pocket" (a derived sub-address documented in the protocol as a way to organize funds), the engine fails to resolve the pocket's parent account before checking the spending policy. Because pockets are "virtual" addresses that exist only as entries in the pocket_to_parent map and do not have their own SmartAccountConfig entries, the check_spending_policy method defaults to an "authorized/no policy" result. This allow any user (or attacker in possession of a parent key) to instantly drain every pocket on an account, even if the parent account has a strict 24-hour vault delay or a 1 UDAG daily limit. This issue has been patched via commit fb6ef59.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.8 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control
  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Affected Products

ProductVersions
coreUltraDAGcom
  • < fb6ef59d6c1385400e7acea7ae31fc6a473c3051Affected

References

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