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Audit the fairness and anti-cheat of Space Pinball in the open-source …2a2826a6

Audit the fairness and anti-cheat of Space Pinball in the open-source NIGHTSHIFT repository. The browser runs a deterministic pinball engine (apps/web/src/pinball/engine.ts, byte-identical to apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts); the server replays each player's recorded inputs with that engine (apps/engine/src/pinball.ts) and only the replayed score counts, for duels (both tables in lockstep, attacks delayed 720 ticks) and the solo board.

Find every way a player could get a score they did not earn, forge or replay inputs, predict or choose a favourable seed, desync the duel, exhaust the server, or show harmful content to the other player; check determinism across JavaScript engines (floating point, sort order, Math functions). Rank findings by severity with concrete fixes. Stakes in IMD and $SHIFT will depend on this.

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12 findings

Four agents audited the code as it is at 34c2afd, each in one area, and a judge reproduced, merged and ranked what they found, then read the code once more itself. Nothing in the code was changed or deployed.

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1.criticalBall save re-arms on every launch: a plunger-only loop never loses a ball and scores ~860,000 on any seedapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:192
```
      if (this.tick - this.launchedAt < SAVE_TICKS) {
```
step() grants the ball save whenever the drain happens within SAVE_TICKS (960 ticks) of launchedAt, and launchedAt is reset on every launch (line 168), including the relaunch of a ball that was just saved (line 193 puts it back in the lane). Nothing remembers that this ball already used its save, so a ball that always drains within 4 s is saved forever and ballsLeft never decreases. Each relaunch also re-awards the skill shot (line 171, 1000 x mult).

A 75% pull (plunger held 180 ticks) sends the ball over the arc into the left target lane, knocks the three frog targets (+1500 x mult, +1 mult, a surge sent in a duel) and drains inside the save window, every time, on every seed tested. The result is a two-inputs-per-launch script that needs no flipper use, runs the full 150 s with three balls in hand, and out-scores the repository's own flipper bot by 4x to 16x.

It dominates the solo board and any staked duel, and pours ~60 gravity surges onto the rival. The HUD says the save covers 'the first 4 seconds of every ball', i.e. once per ball. Merged from audit_math (critical) and audit_flow (high).

Fix (keeps the stated rule): add a saved flag on the table; at line 192 require !this.saved, set it when the save fires, clear it in the real-drain path (line 196-200); and skip the skill-shot award when the launch follows a save. Ship it in both engine copies together and version the boards, since it changes replay results.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir).

Script: hold the plunger from tick 0, release at tick 180, and hold again for 180 ticks every time inLane becomes true, left/right always 0.

The first inputs are [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0],[1802,0,0,1],[1982,0,0,0],...]

(82 inputs for seed 1). replay(1, inputs) -> score 864430, ticks 36000, 40 'save' events, 0 'drain' events, 41 'skill', 61 'targets', ballsLeft 3.

Seeds 2 / 42 / 99 / 12345 -> 857860 / 838030 / 869380 / 885420 (39-41 saves, 0-1 drains).

The flipper bot from apps/engine/src/pinball.test.ts scores 81960 / 162460 / 187450 / 54250 / 277240 on the same seeds and loses all three balls.

Expected: at most one save per ball, three drains, a modest score.

Actual: never drains, full 150 s, ~860k.
2.criticalRival's self-reported attacks are relayed unverified and applied to the victim's live table, so a player can desync the opponent's game from the deciding replayapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:120
```
    if ((k === "meteor" || k === "surge") && t >= 0 && t <= MAX_TICKS && !p.attacks.some((a) => a.tick === t && a.kind === k) && p.attacks.length < 200) p.attacks.push({ kind: k, tick: t });
```
progress() accepts any sent list from a player (any kind, any tick in 0..MAX_TICKS, deduplicated, up to 200 per match, 20 per post) without checking that the player's game earned those attacks. view() relays them to the other player as attacks, and the other browser calls t.receive(a.kind, a.tick + ATTACK_DELAY) for each one (apps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:112), which changes the physics of the table being played: meteors on the field and 35% heavier gravity.

The deciding duelReplay() (engine.ts:298-313) ignores that list and schedules only the attacks the sender's replayed inputs actually produce.

So the table the victim sees and records inputs against is not the table their inputs are replayed on: (a) fake attacks: the victim dodges meteors the replay never creates; (b) withheld attacks (omit sent): the victim plays a clean table and the replay injects the real meteors; either way the victim's verified score collapses while the cheater's own table is unaffected.

The same root cause desyncs honest duels whenever an attack notice arrives more than 3 s late (slow link, backgrounded tab, the shared 600/min progress limiter behind one NAT): the browser lands it immediately (if (a.at > this.tick) continue; no longer defers it) while the replay lands it at tick+720. With IMD/$SHIFT stakes this lets a player take the pot from an opponent who played correctly, with one unauthenticated POST.

Merged from audit_economics, audit_math, audit_flow and audit_permissions (all the same mechanism).

Fix: never let the browser's attack schedule come from a peer's self-report.

Have each progress() post carry the player's input log so far, replay it incrementally on the server (a full game replays in ~65 ms) and relay only server-derived attacks; or record per player the exact schedule delivered to them and have duelReplay use that schedule for that player's table, voiding (refunding) the match when it differs from what the sender's replay earned or when a delivery arrived after its landing tick.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir).

Server side: queue('A'), listen(matchId, noop), queue('B') pairs them; after the countdown progress(matchId, A, { sent: [{kind:'meteor',tick:0},{kind:'meteor',tick:300},{kind:'surge',tick:600},...

20 entries] }) with no inputs from A at all; get(matchId, B).players[rival].attacks has 20 entries, and 13 such posts fill it to 200, while duelReplay(seed, [], []) lands 0 attacks on B.

Engine side: the repository test's flipper bot plays seed 42 with those 20 fake attacks applied via t.receive(kind, tick+720): live score 214980 with 20 attacks received; duelReplay(42, victimInputs, []) scores those same inputs 47230 with 0 attacks received.

Without fake attacks live and replayed scores agree (187450 / 187450).

Withheld case: A plunges to 175 and B to 150 with the same bot, B sees no attacks live (81960 on seed 1, 162460 on seed 2) but duelReplay(seed, A.inputs, B.inputs) scores B 56380 / 38410 after A's 2 / 9 real attacks land.

Expected: the table the player sees equals the table that is replayed.

Actual: the opponent controls the difference.
3.highSolo runs hand out the seed up front, never expire and may be opened 40 at a time, so seeds can be shopped and inputs solved offlineapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:200
```
  if (Date.now() - r.startedAt < (lastTick / 240) * 1000 - 3_000) throw new Error("inputs from later than the run has lasted");
```
The comment above soloStart() promises that 'nobody can shop for a lucky table', but soloStart() returns the seed immediately, server.ts:374 allows 40 runs per 10 minutes per IP, and a run has no deadline: soloFinish() only refuses inputs whose last tick is ahead of the wall clock, never a run that is too old (pruning at line 192 starts only above 20,000 runs).

The engine is public and deterministic, so a player can open 40 runs, replay every seed offline, keep the best, and spend unlimited time searching flipper timings (a full game replays in ~65 ms) before submitting; an abandoned run costs nothing. Nothing binds the log to live play: a log whose last input is at tick 1107 is accepted 10 s after start even though the simulated game then runs 150 s.

Every score on the solo board and every 'NEW #1 TONIGHT' community post can therefore be synthesised rather than played. Merged from audit_economics (high), audit_math (medium), audit_flow (medium) and audit_permissions (solver high + shopping medium).

Fix: expire a run at startedAt + 150 s + a small grace and refuse soloFinish() after that; allow one open run per IP/session at a time; require the elapsed time to be within a tolerance of the replayed game's own tick count (not just the last input's tick); and, to close the offline-solver gap, stream the input log during play (the progress cadence already exists) and require the final log to equal what was streamed, so a search can only run in real time with ~1 s of lookahead.

State in the UI that boards are not bot-proof until that ships.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). soloStart('x') called 40 times returns 40 distinct {id, seed} pairs, all open.

With Date.now() advanced 24 h, soloFinish(id, [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0]]) is accepted and returns {score: 11330, rank: 1} on the solo board.

With Date.now() advanced only 10 s after start, the same 4-input log (last tick 1107, simulated game 150 s) is accepted too (score 50170).

Seed luck alone with identical bot inputs over seeds 1000..1039: min 10840, median 96010, max 233780.

Expected: one seed, finished within the game's own duration, inputs produced during the run.

Actual: any of 40 seeds, any time later, any log.
4.highMatch SSE re-serialises both players' avatars (up to 200 KB each) per listener on every progress post, with no backpressure on res.writeapps/engine/src/server.ts:400
```
            const off = pinListen(id, () => res.write(`data: ${JSON.stringify(pinGet(id, me))}\n\n`));
```
view() (apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:67) embeds p.avatar for both players in every match snapshot, queue() accepts an avatar of up to 200,000 base64 characters, emit() runs on every progress() post (600/min per IP, i.e. 10/s) and the listener at server.ts:400 calls JSON.stringify(pinGet(id, me)) once per SSE connection and res.write()s it without checking the return value or writableLength.

A single match with two 200 KB avatars therefore costs ~400 KB of JSON per listener per progress post, and a client that opens the stream and never reads the socket makes Node buffer every frame in process memory indefinitely. One IP (4 streams, 10 posts/s) pushes ~16 MB/s into unread buffers, plus 40 x 400 KB JSON.stringify per second on the event loop; more IPs scale linearly until the engine process (which also serves every other API) is OOM-killed.

The honest rival on a phone receives ~2 MB/s for the whole duel. Merged from audit_flow (high) and audit_permissions (medium).

Fix: send avatars once (first SSE frame) or by reference and strip them from per-progress snapshots; coalesce emits to a few per second per match; honour the false return of res.write() or close listeners whose writableLength exceeds a few hundred KB; cap avatar size to what a frog image needs.
Verified on the code: queue('y', null, 'FREE', 0, 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + 'A'.repeat(200000)) is accepted (regex at pinball.ts:82) and get(matchId) serialises to 200,313 bytes; server.ts:400 writes JSON.stringify(pinGet(id, me)) per listener on every emit and ignores the write() result; progress is limited to 600/min per IP (server.ts:406) and streams to 4 per IP (server.ts:396).

Steps: 1) from one IP POST /api/pinball/queue twice with a 199,000-char base64 SVG avatar (the second joins the first: both in match M); 2) open 4 raw TCP connections to GET /api/pinball/match/M/events and never read; 3) POST /api/pinball/match/M/progress {"player":"","score":1} 10 times per second.

Expected: bounded memory per connection and a few hundred bytes per progress tick.

Actual: ~400 KB per frame per unread stream buffered in process memory without limit (~16 MB/s per IP).
5.mediumA black-hole capture is scored and sends a meteor 1 to 3 times, because the sub-step loop keeps calling #move after the ball is heldapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:184
```
    for (let i = 0; i < SUB; i++) this.#move();
```
step() runs SUB=3 sub-steps unconditionally. When #move() captures the ball (line 211-215) it sets held=240, raises the multiplier, scores 2000 x mult, sends a meteor and returns, but it does not move the ball; the ball is moved to the hole centre only on the next tick (line 176). The remaining sub-steps of the same tick therefore find the ball still inside the 15 px core and fire the capture again.

How many times (1, 2 or 3) depends only on which sub-step the ball crossed the core in, not on play. The stated rule is '+2,000 and +1 multiplier' and one meteor per hole; actually one capture can give +4000 and +6000 (mult 1->2->3) and two meteors (MAX_METEORS is 2, so one hole fills the rival's table). Symmetric for both players, but the scoring and attack economy do not follow the design and depend on a sub-step coincidence.

Merged from audit_math (high), audit_economics (medium) and audit_flow (medium).

Fix: stop sub-stepping once the ball is held, e.g. for (let i = 0; i < SUB && this.held === 0; i++) this.#move(); (or return early from #move when held > 0). This changes replay results of recorded games: change both engine copies together and version the boards.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). replay(1, [[0,0,0,1],[150,0,0,0]]) (plunger held 150 ticks, no flippers): events are launch at tick 151, then hole:4000 and hole:6000 both at tick 365, two meteors sent, mult 3, stats.holes 2 for one capture.

With the repository test's bot on seed 1: holes per tick 365: 4000+6000, 2551: 4000+6000, 6802: 4000+6000, 10565: 10000+10000; stats.holes is 8 for 4 captures.

Over 100 bot games, 277 of 396 captures were counted more than once.

Expected: one 'hole' event per capture.

Actual: 1-3 per capture.
6.mediumDuel inputs are accepted up to 120 s after the game clock ends while the rival's verified score, finished flag and attack ticks are visible, so the second finisher can solve offline against a known taapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:142
```
  if (Date.now() - m.startedAt < (lastTick / 240) * 1000 - 3_000) throw new Error("inputs from later than the match has run");
```
finish() only refuses inputs from the future of the match clock; settle() waits until startedAt + 150 s + 120 s for a missing log. Meanwhile view() (line 67) streams to the other player solo (the finisher's server-replayed score), finished and the tick-exact attack list.

A player can let the rival play and finish, read the exact number to beat and the attacks that will land, and spend up to 270 s from start running the public engine over candidate input logs (65 ms per full replay) before submitting. The still-nudge at engine.ts:187 leaves a ball cradled on a raised flipper alone, so the live table can idle while that search runs. Merged from audit_flow (low), audit_math (low, view leak) and the duel half of audit_permissions' solver finding.

Fix: require finish() within a few seconds of the player's own game ending on the server clock (reject when Date.now() - startedAt > replayedTicks/240*1000 + ~10 s), shorten the 120 s grace, and hide solo, score, stats and landed attack ticks from the rival until m.done.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('')+listen+queue('') pairs A and B; with Date.now() advanced 7 s past the queue, finish(matchId, A, [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0]]) returns solo 3770 and get(matchId, B).players[rival] shows solo: 3770, finished: true while done is false (B is still mid-game).

With Date.now() advanced to startedAt + 265 s, finish(matchId, B, [[0,0,0,1],[100,0,0,0]]) is accepted (lastTick 100 -> 0.4 s - 3 s bound trivially met), the match settles and records scores [3770, 200].

Expected: nothing about A's verified result reaches B before settlement, and B's log must arrive while B's game is running.

Actual: the exact verified score is shown to B (PinballPage.tsx:148 even displays it as the rival's live score) and B may submit 115 s after the clock ran out.
7.mediumAvatar check accepts any base64 SVG up to 200 KB and shows it to the opponent as their 'onchain frog'apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:82
```
  const face = avatar && (/^\/games\/pinball\/frog-\d\.webp$/.test(avatar) || /^data:image\/svg\+xml;base64,[A-Za-z0-9+/=]{100,200000}$/.test(avatar)) ? avatar : null;
```
The comment says only the site's art or an onchain frog image may be shown to the other player, but the second regex alternative only requires a data:image/svg+xml;base64 URL of 100..200,000 base64 characters. Nothing ties it to the signed-in wallet (engine.auth.owner(req) is passed to queue() but unused for this) or to any NIGHT FROG tokenURI; the browser resolves the frog itself (PinballPage.tsx:36-50) and the server trusts whatever arrives.

The rival's browser renders it via in the HUD, side panel and result overlay (PinballGame.tsx:349, 401; PinballPage.tsx:167) and draws it at 176 px on the VS screen for 6 s (PinballGame.tsx:307). Scripts do not run inside , but with any words (scam addresses), embedded rasters and SMIL flashing (a photosensitivity hazard) all render, chosen by a stranger with no sign-in.

Merged from audit_economics, audit_math, audit_flow and audit_permissions (all medium).

Fix: do not accept image bytes from the client; accept a frog token id (or one of the shipped /games/pinball/frog-N.webp paths), verify ownerOf(tokenId) against the authenticated wallet server-side, fetch and cache the tokenURI image on the server, and send only that reference to the opponent.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('x', null, 'FREE', 0, 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + base64('SEND IMD TO 0xBAD')) with no wallet: get(matchId).players[0].avatar is the submitted data URL (422 chars), and 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + 'A'.repeat(200000) is accepted as well.

The next player to queue FREE:0 is paired and receives it as the rival avatar in view().

Expected: rejected or replaced by a default frog unless it is the caller's own frog.

Actual: shown full-size to the opponent.
8.lowFrog crew resets the targets while the ball still overlaps the last one, so the next sub-step scores that target again at the raised multiplierapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:253
```
        if (this.targets.every((x) => x.down)) { for (const x of this.targets) x.down = false; this.#add("targets", 1500, "surge"); this.mult = Math.min(5, this.mult + 1); }
```
A target hit only flips the ball's x velocity (line 251) and does not push the ball out of the target's radius. When the third target goes down, the crew resets all three to down=false in the same sub-step; one sub-step later (1/720 s) the ball has moved under 1 px and is still within r + BALL_R of the target it just hit, so it fires again: +250 x the new multiplier that the player did not earn, and that target is already down when the player returns for the next crew.

Deterministic and symmetric, but score and target state no longer follow the stated rules. Kept from audit_math (low).

Fix: defer the reset until the ball is clear of all three targets, or move the ball out to the target's rim on a hit as the bumpers do (line 230).
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). replay(1, botInputs) with the flipper bot from apps/engine/src/pinball.test.ts for seed 1: events at tick 7576 are target:750, targets:4500, target:1000 (a 'target' after the 'targets' reset in the same tick), and at tick 9608 target:1000, targets:6000.

Expected: after a 'targets' event no 'target' event in the same tick.

Actual: the just-reset target scores again immediately.
9.lowThe duel winner is recorded by display name, which both players may share, so the result (and any future payout) is ambiguousapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:160
```
  m.winner = m.draw ? null : a.score > b.score ? a.name : b.name;
```
Names are free text cleaned to [\w .-], at most 18 characters, defaulting to 'Night crew', and are not unique. settle() stores only the winner's name; the client decides VICTORY/DEFEAT by m.winner === mine?.name (PinballPage.tsx:154), so when both players share a name both see VICTORY, the community announcement names 'Night crew beat Night crew', and an escrow built on this record has no reliable identity to pay. Merged from audit_economics and audit_flow (both low).

Fix: record the winner by player id (and wallet once stakes are live), and expose a per-viewer winnerIsYou in view().
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('', null, 'FREE', 0, null), listen, queue('', ...): both players are named 'Night crew'.

After both finish (scores 3770 vs 200), get(matchId).winner === 'Night crew'; both clients evaluate m.winner === mine.name as true.

Expected: exactly one player is told they won.

Actual: both.
10.lowA match whose second player never plays is settled as a walkover and the finisher's score goes on the duel board as a verified duelapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:162
```
  record([a, b].filter((p) => p.inputs).map((p) => ({ name: p.name, score: p.score ?? 0, at: p.finishedAt ?? Date.now() })));
```
queue() pairs the caller with whoever is waiting and requires nothing of the joiner afterwards; after startedAt + 150 s + 120 s the 20 s interval settles the match with b.score = 0 and record() keeps the finisher's score for the duel board (tell() is skipped only for the chat post).

A player can open two tabs, queue both, play one and abandon the other, and receive a duel-board entry for a game in which no attack ever landed, which is not comparable with real duels; one IP may also grab waiting players 20 times per 10 minutes and leave them playing alone for 4.5 minutes. Kept from audit_permissions (low).

Fix: do not record a duel-board score unless both players finished; require a readiness ping during the countdown and dissolve the match (re-queue the present player) if the other side never connects; limit each IP/session to one open match.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('Lonely'), listen, queue('Ghost'); after the countdown finish(matchId, Lonely, [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0]]); Ghost never finishes.

With Date.now() advanced to startedAt + 271 s, the setInterval settle fires: done true, winner 'Lonely', scores [8520, 0], and board().board contains 'Lonely' with 8520 (and not 'Ghost').

Expected: a one-sided match is void for board purposes.

Actual: it is listed as a verified duel score.
11.lowPlayer-chosen names are not screened and the first finisher of a quiet day is broadcast to the community channel under the project's voiceapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:191
```
  runs.set(id, { seed, name: name.replace(/[^\w .-]/g, "").slice(0, 18) || "Night crew", startedAt: Date.now(), done: false });
```
queue() and soloStart() strip names to [\w .-] and 18 characters but apply no word filter and no identity binding (the signed-in wallet is ignored for the name). tops() marks a score tonightTop whenever it exceeds the best of the last 24 h, which is 0 after a quiet day, so any solo run with score > 0 triggers the 'NEW #1 ON TONIGHT'S SOLO BOARD ... ' post in apps/engine/src/engine.ts:164 (6 posts/hour cap) and the name stays on the public board for 24 h or in the top 200 for ever.

The name is HTML-escaped (no injection); the issue is unmoderated content and impersonation (e.g. 'NIGHTSHIFT', a known holder's handle) under the project's voice. Kept from audit_permissions (low).

Fix: run names through the existing moderation path and a small denylist, reserve project/admin names, derive the display name from the wallet or ENS for signed-in players, and require a signed-in wallet or a minimum score before posting a result to the channel.
Verified on the code: soloStart(name) stores name.replace(/[^\w .-]/g, '').slice(0, 18) with no further check; tops('solo', score) at pinball.ts:44-48 returns tonightTop = score > 0 when no solo score in the last 24 h exists; soloFinish() calls tell() for any score > 0 and engine.ts:164 posts the name.

Steps: when no solo run finished in the last 24 h, POST /api/pinball/solo {name:'<any 18 ASCII chars>'}, play one launch that hits a bumper, POST /api/pinball/solo/{id}/finish.

Expected: names screened before public broadcast.

Actual: the chosen text is posted to the community chat and kept on the board.
12.infoAttract-mode restart copies a Table with Object.assign, which leaves the private #rand and #meteorN of the old table in placeapps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:134
```
        if (demo && t.over) { Object.assign(t, new Table(seed + Math.floor(now))); seen = 0; }
```
Object.assign(t, new Table(...)) copies only public own properties; the #rand closure and #meteorN counter remain those of the first table, so the demo's later random draws (plunger power, black-hole exit side) continue the old stream and the restarted demo is not the game new Table(seed + ...) would play.

Demo only: no score is submitted from it, so no fairness impact; noted because the same pattern would silently break determinism if reused for a real table. Kept from audit_math (info).

Fix: replace the reference (let t = new Table(...)) instead of assigning over it.
Verified on the code and JavaScript semantics: engine.ts:108-109 declare #meteorN and #rand as private fields, which Object.assign does not copy; Object.assign(new Table(1), new Table(2)) succeeds and sets the public seed to 2 while #rand remains rng(1).

Steps: run the lobby demo until the first game ends; the second demo game's plunger power comes from the first table's generator state.

Expected: the restarted table equals new Table(seed2).

Actual: public fields copied, private generator unchanged.

Work

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Audit economicsAgent #1766found 2 high, 2 medium, 1 low
I found five problems and wrote them to .imd-findings.json. Each one gives the exact trigger and expected against actual, and every path, line and quoted snippet matches the tree. I reproduced the first three by running the shipped engine (copied to /tmp) under Node 24 with the repo's own attract-mode bot. The other two come from reading the code. No repository files were changed, and there are no Foundry proofs because none of this is Solidity.

High – a player can wreck the other player's duel score (apps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:112, apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:120). The browser adds the rival's meteors and surges from whatever the rival reports. The server replay ignores that report and uses the attacks it computes itself.

If a cheater hides their attacks, the victim plays a clear table but is scored on one with meteors. The victim's replayed score differed from what they played in 30 of 30 simulated duels, with the average falling from 81,111 to 36,494.

If the cheater invents attacks, the victim dodges meteors the server never creates. That also broke the score in 30 of 30 games.

Honest players also lose sync whenever an attack takes more than 3 seconds to arrive.

Fix: have the server compute the attacks it relays from each player's inputs, or replay with exactly the attacks each client received, or void the duel on any mismatch.

High – solo scores can be computed offline instead of played (pinball.ts:200). A solo run gets its seed when it starts and has no deadline. The only timing check stops inputs that are ahead of the clock, never ones that come late.

A player can open 40 runs, test each seed offline and finish only the best. With the same bot, 40 seeds scored from 3,840 to 226,840.

They can also spend hours searching for the best inputs before submitting.

In duels, whoever submits second has about 270 seconds to do the same.

Fix: add a deadline based on the replayed game's length, allow one open run per account, count abandoned runs, or send inputs to the server as they are played.

Medium – one black-hole capture scores two or three times (engine.ts:212, with the loop at line 184). Each tick runs three physics steps, and the loop keeps going after the ball is caught. Each extra step adds another 2000 × multiplier, another +1 multiplier and another meteor. With seed 1 at tick 365, one capture gave 4,000 + 6,000 points. Across seeds 1–200, 572 capture ticks scored more than once.

Fix: stop the loop once the ball is held. This changes existing scores, so treat it as a scoring version change and reset or tag the boards.

Medium – any SVG passes as an avatar (pinball.ts:82). The check only confirms the data looks like a base64 SVG, so the opponent can be shown any image, such as a scam message. Scripts don't run, but the picture is the attacker's choice.

Fix: accept a frog token id that the wallet owns, and have the server supply the image.

Low – the duel winner is stored as a name (pinball.ts:160). Names are free text and default to "Night crew". If both players share a name, the result can't say who won, and solo board entries can be posted under anyone's name.

Fix: store the winner by player id, and by wallet once stakes are live.

Checked and clean:

Determinism: the engine uses only basic arithmetic, Math.sqrt and Math.imul, which give the same results in every JavaScript engine. Inputs are applied on the same tick in the browser and on the server. Sorting is stable and only compares whole numbers.

Inputs: bad values (NaN, infinite, negative or too-large ticks) are filtered out.

Duel seed: it comes from crypto randomness, and both players get it at the same moment.

Server load: one worst-case replay costs about 37 ms. With the existing rate limits I didn't rank that as a finding.

Not done: I did not trace the web client's solo and lobby flow end to
ran onclaude · claude-opus-5-5 · 14 turns · 3m 49s · 26 in · 16.8K out · 672.3K cached
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highDuel desync: the client puts the rival's self-reported attacks on the table, but the server replay uses its own attacks, so either player can wreck the other's verified scoreapps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:112
During a duel each browser schedules meteors and surges from rival.attacks. That list is whatever the rival POSTed to /api/pinball/match/:id/progress as sent, and pinball.ts:120 accepts any kind and tick in 0..MAX_TICKS without checking them. The deciding duelReplay (engine.ts:298-315) ignores that list and puts only the attacks the replay itself produced onto each table.

So the table the honest player sees and plays on is not the table their inputs are replayed on. A cheater can (a) withhold sent: the victim plays a table with no meteors or surges, then the replay injects them and the victim's recorded flips hit an empty table; or (b) send made-up attacks: the victim dodges meteors that the replay never creates. Either way the victim's replayed score falls apart, while the cheater's own table only takes the victim's real attacks.

An honest player also desyncs whenever the relay arrives more than 720 ticks (3 s) late, because receive() then lands the attack later than the server does. Once stakes go live, this lets a player win a duel by sabotage.

Fix: Do not trust client sent. Have the server derive the attacks: each progress POST carries the player's input log so far, the server advances that player's Table incrementally (or re-runs the prefix up to tick T-720), and only the attacks it computes are relayed.

Alternatively, do the final duelReplay with exactly the attacks each client received and acknowledged (store the delivered list per player and feed those to receive() in duelReplay), and reject a delivery that arrives after its landing tick. At minimum, have the server compare the relayed attack list with the attacks the replay produced and void the duel (refund) on any mismatch instead of scoring it.
Simulated with the shipped engine (copied to /tmp; both players use the attract-mode flipper bot, A plunging to 175 and B to 150).

(a) Withholding: B plays live with no attacks received; then duelReplay(seed, A.inputs, B.inputs).

Seed 1: B live 81,960 vs B replayed 56,380.

Seed 2: 162,460 vs 38,410.

Seed 4: 10,220 vs 4,640.

B's replayed score differed in 30 of 30 seeds; the mean dropped from 81,111 (live) to 36,494 (replayed).

(b) Made-up attacks: the cheater POSTs progress {sent:[{kind:'meteor',tick:400},{kind:'surge',tick:1900},...]}; B's client applies them and the server never does.

Seed 2: B live 171,890 vs server 38,800.

Desync in 30 of 30.

Expected: the table the player sees equals the table that is replayed.

Actual: the opponent controls the difference.
highSolo board: seed shopping and unlimited offline solving. A run has no deadline and many runs can be opened, so a near-perfect score can be computed instead of playedapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:200
soloStart returns the seed when the run opens. soloFinish only checks that the inputs are not ahead of wall-clock time; there is no upper bound, and a run never expires (pruning only starts above 20,000 runs and only touches runs that are not done).

The engine is public and deterministic, so a player can (1) open up to 40 runs per IP every 10 minutes (more with extra IPs), simulate each seed offline and finish only the best one, which contradicts the comment at line 183 that 'nobody can shop for a lucky table'; and (2) spend hours searching inputs offline (a tool-assisted run) and submit them, and the submission passes because elapsed time far exceeds lastTick/240 s.

Duels have the same weakness on a smaller scale: finish() accepts inputs until startedAt+270 s, so the second submitter can search offline with full knowledge of the seed and of the first player's attacks.

Fix: Require the run to finish within a deadline tied to the game clock: reject when Date.now()-startedAt > (ticks of the replayed game)/240 s + a small slack, and reject when it is less than ticks/240 - slack, using the replayed game's ticks rather than the last input tick. Limit open runs per user or wallet to one, and count abandoned runs as zero on the board.

Better still, stream inputs to the server during play (e.g. with the progress cadence) so the server holds the log as it happens. Apply the same deadline to duel finish().
POST /api/pinball/solo 40 times and collect the 40 seeds.

With the repository's own attract-mode bot, seeds 1000..1039 gave min 3,840, median 48,300 and max 226,840, a 59x spread from seed luck alone.

Abandon 39 runs and finish the best one, or wait 24 h and POST /api/pinball/solo/:id/finish with inputs from an offline search.

Expected: rejected, or limited to one fair seed.

Actual: accepted; the replayed score goes onto the solo board and is announced in community chat.
mediumOne black-hole capture scores 2-3 times and adds +2/+3 to the multiplier (substep loop keeps calling #move after the ball is captured)apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:212
step() runs for (let i = 0; i < SUB; i++) this.#move(); (line 184). When #move captures the ball (hd < core) it sets held=240 and returns, but the loop calls #move again for the remaining substeps. The ball has not moved and is still inside the core, so the capture fires again: another 2000 x mult, another +1 multiplier, and another meteor sent to the opponent.

How many captures one entry produces (1 to 3) depends on which substep the ball arrived in, not on how the player played. Points, multiplier and attacks therefore do not match the design (one capture = 2000 x mult, +1 mult, one meteor), and the duel opponent gets up to three meteors (two stay on the table, since MAX_METEORS is 2) for a single event.

Fix: Leave the substep loop once the ball is captured: for (let i = 0; i < SUB && this.held === 0; i++) this.#move();, or check if (this.held > 0) return; at the top of #move. This changes scores for existing seed+input pairs, so ship it in both engine copies together and treat it as a scoring version bump (reset the boards or tag them with the version).
Bot replay, seed 1: tick 365 emits two 'hole' events, of 4,000 and 6,000 points (mult goes 1->2->3), and the same happens at ticks 2551 and 6802.

Over seeds 1..200, 572 of the ticks that had a capture recorded more than one.

Expected: one 'hole' event per capture.

Actual: 2-3 events in one tick.
mediumAvatar check accepts any base64 SVG, and it is shown to the opponent as an 'onchain frog'apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:82
The comment says only house art or an onchain frog image may be shown to the other player, but the regex only checks that the data URL looks like base64. It does not compare the image with a frog the wallet owns, or with any frog at all. A player can send any picture (offensive or explicit imagery, a scam QR code, text such as 'send IMD to 0x...').

The image is drawn on the rival's canvas and VS screen (PinballGame.tsx:89) and included in every SSE update. Scripts do not run because it is rendered via , but the content is fully attacker-chosen.

Fix: Do not accept image bytes from the client. Accept a frog token id, check that the authenticated wallet owns it, and have the server look up the image (from chain or a cached allow-list keyed by token id) or serve /games/pinball/frog-N.webp; send only that id or a server-side URL to the opponent.
POST /api/pinball/queue {name:'x', currency:'FREE', stake:0, avatar:'data:image/svg+xml;base64,'+base64('SEND IMD TO 0xBAD')}.

The value matches the regex, is stored as p.avatar, and the opponent who joins sees it as the rival avatar.

Expected: rejected unless it is a frog image.

Actual: shown.
lowThe duel winner is a display name, not a player id; duplicate names (including the default 'Night crew') make the result ambiguousapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:160
Names are free text, cleaned only by stripping characters outside [\w .-], and default to 'Night crew'. The match result records only the winner's name, so when both players share a name, or one copies the other's, the outcome cannot tell who won. Any staked escrow or UI that reads winner has no reliable identity, and the board and community chat (tell()) can be spoofed under someone else's name, since solo runs need no authentication at all.

Fix: Store the winner as a player index or id (and the wallet once stakes are live). Send each client you: true/false for the winner, and tie board and chat entries to an authenticated account or wallet.
Two players queue FREE:0 with name '' (both become 'Night crew').

A scores 50,000 and B scores 10,000.

The view shows winner:'Night crew' and both clients render the same winner string, so B's client cannot tell it lost.

Expected: winner identifies player A.

Actual: ambiguous.
Audit flowAgent #956found 1 critical, 2 high, 3 medium, 2 low
The review is complete. Eight findings are written to .imd-findings.json, every snippet verified against the tree, and no repository file was changed.

What I did

I read the engine, the server-side replay and match code, the HTTP routes and the browser game page, then ran the engine under Node to reproduce each engine-level claim with exact seeds and inputs.

Findings, ranked

Critical, fake attacks desync the rival. The progress endpoint accepts any sent list, the match view relays it, and the opponent's browser applies every entry to its live table. The server replay only knows attacks that were really earned. Simulated victim: 214,980 seen on screen, 47,230 verified. Honest latency over 3 seconds causes the same divergence.

High, ball save is unlimited. Each launch resets the save window, so a plunger-only skill-shot loop never loses a ball. Seed 1 scores 864,430 with no flipper input, against 81,960 for the repo's own test bot.

High, SSE writes with no backpressure. Every progress post re-serializes both avatars, up to 200 KB each, to every listener with an unchecked res.write. One IP can make the process buffer about 16 MB/s.

Medium, black hole fires up to three times per capture because the sub-step loop keeps calling the move routine after the capture. Seed 1 with plunger hold 150 shows two hole events at tick 365.

Medium, solo runs never expire. Seed shopping across 40 runs per 10 minutes and unlimited offline input search, contradicting the code comment.

Medium, avatar provenance is unchecked. Any 200 KB SVG, including animated strobing, is shown to the rival.

Low, duel inputs accepted up to 120 s after the clock ends with the rival's attack ticks visible.

Low, winner recorded by display name, so two players named "Night crew" both see VICTORY.

Checked and found sound

Floating-point determinism holds: the engine uses only IEEE add, subtract, multiply, divide and correctly rounded Math.sqrt, plus integer Math.imul, and the input sort is stable in all current engines. Seeds come from randomBytes and are hidden until 400 ms before start. Replay cost is bounded at roughly 100 ms per game, so the finish endpoints are not a practical CPU exhaustion vector under the current rate limits.

Scope note

No Foundry proofs were written because the code under review is TypeScript, not Solidity. The server-side memory finding is reasoned from the code and the rate limits rather than run live, since the workspace has no installed dependencies.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 20 turns · 7m 43s · 322 in · 31.1K out · 918.7K cached
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criticalRival's self-reported attacks are applied to the victim's live table, so a player can desync the opponent's game from the server replayapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:120
progress() accepts an arbitrary sent list from a player with no check that those attacks were earned (up to 200 of any kind at any tick). view() relays them as attacks to the opponent, and the opponent's browser schedules every one on its live simulation (apps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:112 t.receive(a.kind, a.tick + ATTACK_DELAY)).

The server's duelReplay() derives attacks only from the replayed events, so the victim plays, and records inputs, against a table with meteors and surges that the verified replay does not contain. Their flipper presses then replay against a different ball trajectory and the verified score collapses, while the attacker's own table is unaffected.

The attacker can also omit real attacks from sent (the honest client only sends sent.slice(-20)), which desyncs the victim the other way. The same class of desync hits honest players whenever the progress POST plus SSE delivery takes longer than ATTACK_DELAY (3 s), e.g. a backgrounded tab or a slow link: the attack lands late in the browser but on time in the replay.

Fix: never let the browser apply attacks from a peer's self-report. Either stream each player's inputs incrementally to the server, have the server run both tables (240 ticks/s is cheap, ~0.1 ms per tick) and relay only attacks it derived itself, or at minimum make the browser derive incoming attacks from the rival's streamed inputs by replaying them locally.

Also drop sent from progress(), and enlarge ATTACK_DELAY or make the replay apply an attack at max(earnedTick+720, deliveredTick) reported by the server clock so late delivery cannot diverge.
Player B (attacker) in match M posts POST /api/pinball/match/M/progress with body {"player":"<B's id>","sent":[{"kind":"meteor","tick":0},{"kind":"meteor","tick":300},{"kind":"surge","tick":600}, ...

20 entries at tick i*300, every third a surge]}.

A's SSE view now lists those attacks and A's browser calls t.receive() for each.

Simulation with the engine (node, Node 24 type-stripping): victim = repo test bot (pinball.test.ts strategy) on seed 42 with those 20 fake attacks scheduled via t.receive(kind, tick+720): live score on A's screen 214,980 and 20 attacks landed; duelReplay(42, A.inputs, []) (B earned nothing) gives A a verified score of 47,230 with 0 attacks.

The same bot without fake attacks: 187,450 live and 187,450 verified.

Expected: the verified score equals what the player saw; actual: the opponent can cut it by ~80% with one unauthenticated POST per 250 ms.
highBall save has no per-ball limit and restarts on every launch, so a plunger-only skill-shot loop never loses a ball and out-scores real play tenfoldapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:192
Every launch sets launchedAt = tick, and a drain within SAVE_TICKS (4 s) of the latest launch returns the ball to the lane without decrementing ballsLeft and without resetting the multiplier.

A skill-shot launch (plunger held 168-196 ticks) sends the ball over the top, through the left frog targets and the slingshots, and it drains in under 4 s, so it is saved, relaunched with another +1000 skill shot (which is multiplied by mult, since "skill" is not in the un-multiplied list at line 115), and so on until MAX_TICKS. No flipper input is ever needed. The targets/multiplier keep accruing across saves.

A player (or a trivial script) who learns the trick beats any skilled player; the solo board and duels (meteors sent on every frog crew, 61 surges in the run below) become a test of who holds the plunger for 180 ticks.

Fix: allow one save per ball (e.g. a saved flag cleared only in the real-drain path), or set launchedAt only on the first launch of a ball and not after a save; also consider not multiplying the skill shot.
Inputs for seed 1: hold the plunger from tick 0, release at tick 180, repeat whenever inLane (i.e. [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0],[1802,0,0,1],[1982,0,0,0],...], 82 inputs in total, left/right always 0). replay(1, inputs) runs to tick 36000 with score 864,430: 41 launches, 41 skill shots (196,000 pts), 40 saves, 0 drains, 184 target hits, 61 frog crews (442,500 pts), 61 attacks sent.

Seeds 42, 99 and 12345 give 838,030 / 869,380 / 885,420 the same way.

The repository test's own reactive flipper bot (pinball.test.ts) on seed 1 scores 81,960 and loses all three balls by tick 11016.

Expected: a drained ball costs a ball after the first save; actual: the ball is never lost and the run lasts the full 150 s.
highMatch SSE writes have no backpressure and re-serialize both 200 KB avatars on every progress post, letting one client make the server buffer unbounded memoryapps/engine/src/server.ts:400
Every progress() call emits the full match view to every listener of the match; the view (apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:66-67) includes each player's avatar, which queue() accepts as a base64 SVG data URL of up to 200,000 characters. res.write() is called without checking its return value or writableLength, so a listener that opens the stream and never reads (or reads slowly) makes Node buffer every event in process memory. progress is allowed 600 posts/min per IP (10/s), streams 4 per IP, so one IP with two queued players carrying 200 KB avatars pushes ~400 KB x 10/s x 4 streams = 16 MB/s of buffered JSON, plus the CPU of JSON.stringify of 400 KB forty times a second on the event loop; several IPs scale linearly until the process is OOM-killed, taking down duels, the solo board and every other API in this process.

Fix: send the avatars once (first SSE message) or by reference, coalesce emits (at most 4/s per match), and in the listener skip or close when res.writableLength exceeds a few hundred KB (or honor the false return of write()).

From one IP: POST /api/pinball/queue twice with {"name":"a","currency":"FREE","stake":0,"avatar":"data:image/svg+xml;base64,<199,000 base64 chars>"} (second call joins the first; both players share the match M).

Open 4 connections to GET /api/pinball/match/M/events with a raw TCP client that never reads the socket.

Loop POST /api/pinball/match/M/progress {"player":"","score":1} 10 times per second (within the 600/min limit). Expected: bounded memory per connection; actual: res.write buffers ~400 KB per event per unread stream, RSS grows ~16 MB/s per attacking IP without limit.

mediumBlack hole scores and sends a meteor up to three times per capture because the sub-step loop keeps calling #move after the captureapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:213
step() calls #move() SUB (3) times per tick. When the ball enters the core, #move sets held = 240, raises the multiplier, scores and returns, but the ball is not moved and nothing stops the remaining sub-steps of the same tick from re-entering the same branch: each one scores another 2000 x mult, raises mult again and sends another meteor.

How many times it fires (1, 2 or 3) depends only on which sub-step the ball crossed the core, so the documented +2,000 / +1 multiplier / one meteor is actually a random 1-3x of each. In a duel this means up to three meteors per hole on the rival's table.

Fix: guard the capture with if (this.held > 0) return; at the top of #move (or break out of the sub-step loop when held becomes non-zero).
Seed 1, inputs [[0,0,0,1],[150,0,0,0]] (plunger held 150 ticks, released, no flippers).

Table events: launch at tick 151, then two "hole" events both at tick 365: points 4000 (mult 2) and 6000 (mult 3), two meteors sent, stats.holes = 2, mult ends at 3 after a single capture.

With plunger hold 100 the single capture fires 3 times; with hold 60 the three captures fire 1, 3 and 2 times.

Expected: one hole event per capture (2000 x mult, +1 mult, one meteor); actual: 1-3 events per capture.
mediumSolo runs never expire, so a player can shop seeds and compute inputs offline for as long as they like before finishingapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:200
soloFinish() only enforces a lower bound on elapsed time (the inputs must not come from the future of the run clock).

There is no upper bound: a run stays finishable until the map exceeds 20,000 entries and it is older than an hour (line 192), which in practice means forever. soloStart hands out the seed immediately and allows 40 runs per 10 minutes per IP, so a player can open many runs, simulate each seed with the open-source engine, keep the most favourable one (the seed decides plunger power and every black-hole exit), and spend unlimited time searching for the best input sequence (the engine runs a full game in ~5-100 ms, so a beam search over flipper timings is cheap), then submit it.

The comment at line 183 ("nobody can shop for a lucky table") does not hold.

Fix: reject a finish once Date.now() - startedAt > MAX_TICKS/240*1000 + a small grace (e.g. 30 s), delete the run then, and allow only one open run per IP or name at a time. The same deterministic-replay design also lets a duel player run a lookahead bot in real time; that cannot be removed by replay checks alone and should be stated as a known limit of staked play.
POST /api/pinball/solo {"name":"x"} 40 times -> 40 {id, seed}.

Offline: for each seed run replay(seed, candidateInputs) with a search over plunger hold (e.g. 180 ticks) and flipper timings; e.g. seeds 1/42/99/12345 with the plunger-only loop already give 864,430 / 838,030 / 869,380 / 885,420, and the search can keep improving for hours.

Any time later (tested path: run older than 150 s is still accepted because only the < check exists), POST /api/pinball/solo//finish {"inputs": best} -> 200 with the score recorded on the verified solo board.

Expected: a run must be finished within the game's own 150 s plus a grace; actual: accepted at any later time.
mediumAny 200 KB SVG passes as an avatar and is shown full-size to the rival, so a player can display arbitrary or strobing imagery to the opponentapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:82
The comment says only the game's own art or an onchain NIGHT FROG image may be shown to the other player, but the check only validates the shape of a base64 SVG data URL, not its provenance. The rival's browser renders it as in the VS screen (176 px), the side panel and the result overlay. SVG in an cannot run script, but SMIL/CSS animation does render in Chrome and Firefox, so a flashing or offensive image can be put in front of the opponent for the whole duel.

Fix: send the frog token id (and rely on the wallet from engine.auth.owner(req)), have the server verify ownership and fetch tokenURI itself, or let the victim's client fetch the image from the chain by token id; reject raw data URLs.
POST /api/pinball/queue {"name":"x","currency":"FREE","stake":0,"avatar":"data:image/svg+xml;base64," + base64 of <svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 10 10'><rect width='10' height='10'><animate attributeName='fill' values='#fff;#000' dur='0.1s' repeatCount='indefinite'/></rect><text y='7' font-size='4'>ANY TEXT</text></svg>}.

The next player to queue is paired and sees that image as the rival avatar in the VS screen and side panel.

Expected: only a verified frog image or the built-in frog art; actual: any SVG up to 200,000 base64 characters.
lowDuel inputs may be submitted up to 120 s after the game clock ends, with the rival's full attack list and finish state visible meanwhileapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:142
finish() only refuses inputs from the future; settle() waits until startedAt + 150 s + 120 s for a missing log. A player can therefore let the honest rival play and finish, read the rival's attacks (tick-exact) and finished flag from the SSE view, then spend the remaining time (up to 270 s from start) computing an input log with the engine and the known seed and attacks, and submit it.

Combined with the deterministic engine this makes a search-based bot strictly stronger than any human.

Fix: require the finish within a few seconds of the player's own game ending as measured on the server clock (e.g. reject when Date.now() - startedAt > lastTick/240*1000 + 10 s), shorten the 120 s grace, and stop exposing the rival's attack ticks after they have landed.
Match M starts at T.

Player A idles.

At T+150 s B has finished (view shows finished:true and B's attacks with ticks).

A runs a local search: duelReplay(seed, candidate, B_attacks_as_fake_log) is not needed because A can reproduce B's attacks by t.receive(kind, tick+720) on its own table; A picks the best candidate and at T+265 s posts /api/pinball/match/M/finish with it: accepted (lastTick/240*1000 - 3000 = 147 s < 265 s elapsed) and settle() scores it.

Expected: inputs must arrive while the game is being played; actual: accepted up to 120 s after the clock.
lowWinner is recorded by display name, which both players may share, so the result and any future payout are ambiguousapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:160
Names are free text (default "Night crew") and not unique. The client decides VICTORY/DEFEAT by m.winner === mine?.name (apps/web/src/PinballPage.tsx:154), so when both players use the same name both see VICTORY, the community announcement names the wrong person, and an escrow built on this record would have no way to pay the right wallet.

Fix: record the winner by player id (and wallet), and expose winnerIsYou in view().
Two players queue with the default name (empty name -> "Night crew").

Scores 1000 vs 500. settle() sets winner = "Night crew"; both clients render the VICTORY overlay and the duel announcement says Night crew beat Night crew.

Expected: exactly one player is told they won; actual: both.
Audit mathAgent #66found 1 critical, 2 high, 2 medium, 2 low, 1 info
The review is complete. .imd-findings.json holds eight substantiated findings, every snippet verified against the tree, and no repository file was modified (only the findings file and scratch scripts under test/scratch/).

What I found, ranked

Critical, engine.ts:192. The ball save re-arms on every launch, including the relaunch of a saved ball, so a ball that drains within 4 s is never lost. A 75% plunger pull sends the ball straight into the three frog targets and back down the drain inside the save window. With 82 inputs and no flipper use, seed 1 scores 864,430 with 3 balls still in hand, 40 saves, 0 drains, 41 skill shots and 61 surges sent. The engine's own bot scores 49k to 187k. Any seed works, so it dominates the solo board and any staked duel.

High, pinball.ts:120. Attack claims posted to progress are relayed unverified, and the rival's browser applies them to its physics. A cheater can post 200 fake surges and meteors, and the victim then plays on a table the server never replays, so their verified score collapses. Honest duels desync the same way when a notice arrives late.

High, engine.ts:184. The sub-step loop keeps running after the black hole captures the ball, so one capture fires up to three times. In 300 bot games, 895 of 1,300 captures were double counted, each giving extra points, an extra multiplier step and a second meteor.

Medium. Solo seeds are dealt before play and never expire, so a player can open 40 runs, solve them offline, and submit the best. Also any 150 KB SVG is accepted as an avatar and shown to the rival.

Low. The frog crew resets targets while the ball still overlaps the last one, re-scoring it. The live view leaks the rival's verified score mid-duel.

Info. The demo restart uses Object.assign and drops private fields.

Proofs. The four scoring and relay findings carry vitest test sources that fail on this code. I ran equivalent assertions with Node's test runner, and the three engine-level ones pass on a scratch copy with the minimal fixes described in each finding.

Determinism check, no defect. The engine uses only IEEE-exact operations and a correctly rounded Math.sqrt, sort stability is guaranteed since ES2019, and a full 150 s replay costs about 34 ms, so engine divergence and replay exhaustion are not concerns at current rate limits.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 22 turns · 9m 47s · 482 in · 40.1K out · 1.5M cached
submission4fc76a499f7889716075d68b1f9fec894d99c8b645c03b181049c2668a9ffbf6
device2ab0b432477fde6c3e63b6dc0efc5ca22f593ae62216a505e5205abd4ed447cc
started from34c2afd64846ddc9f1c35cff94b12675318959f8
bundlenone
criticalBall save re-arms on every launch, so a ball that drains within 4 s is never lost: 864,430 points with 82 inputs and no flipper useapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:192
The ball save compares the current tick with launchedAt, and launchedAt is set on every launch (line 168), including the relaunch of a ball that was just saved (line 193 puts it back in the lane). Nothing records that the save was already used for this ball, so a ball that always drains within SAVE_TICKS (960 ticks) is saved every time and ballsLeft never decreases. Each relaunch also re-awards the skill shot (line 171, 1000 x mult).

On this table a 75% pull (plunge 180/240, power 1875 + rand*40) sends the ball over the arc into the left target lane, where it knocks all three frog targets (+1500 x mult, mult+1 up to 5, and in a duel a surge sent to the rival) and then drains in 478 to 867 ticks, always inside the save window. The run therefore cycles launch -> skill shot -> frog crew -> save for the full 150 s with three balls still in hand.

Measured on seed 1: score 864,430 (41 skill shots 196,000; 184 target hits 222,500; 61 crews 442,500), 36,000 ticks, 40 saves, 0 drains, 61 surges sent; seeds 2, 3, 42, 99, 1234 and 0xdeadbeef all give 838,030 to 882,320. The engine test's own flipper-playing bot scores 49,000 to 187,450 on the same seeds.

The exploit needs two inputs per launch and works on any seed, so it dominates both the solo board and any staked duel against an honest player (and in a duel it also pours 61 gravity surges onto the rival). The HUD states 'Ball save is on for the first 4 seconds of every ball', i.e. once per ball.

Fix (preserves the intended rule): add a saved flag to the table; at line 192 require !this.saved, set it when the save fires, and clear it on a real drain (line 200); skip the skill-shot award (line 171) when the launch follows a save. With exactly that change the same inputs score 23,250 with 3 drains. Consider also capping skill shots at one per ball.
Inputs for seed 1 (any seed behaves the same): [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0],[1802,0,0,1],[1982,0,0,0],...] i.e. hold the plunger for 180 ticks, release, and hold again for 180 ticks every time inLane becomes true (82 inputs).

Expected: at most one save per ball, three drains, game over well before MAX_TICKS, a modest score.

Actual: replay(1, inputs) returns score 864430, ticks 36000, 40 'save' events, 0 'drain' events, ballsLeft 3, mult 5.

Generated and checked with test/scratch/sim2.ts and test/scratch/proofs.test.ts (node --experimental-strip-types).
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// apps/engine/src/pinball.save.test.ts (vitest; the project is TypeScript, so this stands in for a Foundry test) import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"; import { BALLS, type Input, Table, replay } from "./pinball/engine.js"; describe("ball save", () => { it("is granted once per ball, not once per launch", () => { // Pull the plunger for 180 ticks (75%: inside the skill-shot band), release, never touch a flipper, // and pull again whenever the ball is back in the lane. 82 inputs in total. const t = new Table(1); const inputs: Input[] = []; let last = ""; while (!t.over) { const p = t.inLane && t.plunge < 180 ? 1 : 0; if (`${p}` !== last) { inputs.push([t.tick, 0, 0, p as 0 | 1]); t.input = { left: 0, right: 0, plunger: p }; last = `${p}`; } t.step(); } const r = replay(1, inputs); const saves = r.events.filter((e) => e.kind === "save").length; // today: score 864430, ticks 36000, 40 saves, 0 drains, 41 skill shots, 61 frog crews, 3 balls left expect(saves).toBeLessThanOrEqual(BALLS); }); });
highUnverified attack claims in the live feed are applied to the rival's browser physics: a cheater desyncs and sabotages the opponent's replayed gameapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:120
progress() accepts any sent list from a player (deduplicated, capped at 200) and view() relays it to the other player as attacks. The other player's browser (apps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx line 112) calls t.receive(a.kind, a.tick + ATTACK_DELAY) for every entry, which changes the physics of the table they are playing on: meteors appear (up to 2 at once, 8 s each) and gravity rises 35% for 5 s per surge.

The server's duelReplay schedules only the attacks that the sender's replayed inputs actually produce. So the victim's recorded inputs were made against a table the server never replays.

A cheater joins a FREE (later staked) duel and posts {sent:[{kind:'surge',tick:0},{kind:'surge',tick:1200},...,{kind:'meteor',tick:...}]} (200 entries) from their own player id before or right after the start: the victim's browser plays 150 s under permanent heavy gravity with two meteors always on the field, their flips are timed for that, and the server replays the same inputs on a clean table where the ball goes elsewhere and drains. The cheater's own table is unaffected.

The same root cause also desyncs honest duels: an attack notice that arrives after local tick tick + 720 (network or SSE delay over 3 s, throttled tab) lands immediately in the browser but at tick + 720 in the replay, and an attack produced by a browser game that already diverged carries a tick the rival's replay never emits.

Fix: never let the browser's attack schedule come from the live feed.

The server should stamp each attack it relays with a landing tick on the shared clock and attach the schedule each player actually received to that player's finish submission (or store it server-side per player as it is relayed); duelReplay then replays each table with the schedule that player saw, and marks any attack in that schedule that the sender's replay did not earn (same kind, same tick) as a forfeit by the sender.

At minimum, validate claimed attacks against the sender's own live-replayed events before relaying them, and drop attacks whose landing tick is already in the victim's past instead of landing them at once.
queue('a'); listen(matchId, noop); queue('b') (same match). progress(matchId, playerA, { sent: [{kind:'meteor',tick:0},...,{kind:'meteor',tick:19}] }). get(matchId, playerB).players[rival].attacks has 20 entries although player A has submitted no inputs and duelReplay(seed, [], bInputs) schedules zero attacks on B's table.

Expected: B's browser table receives only attacks A's replay earns.

Actual: B's browser calls t.receive('meteor', tick + 720) twenty times (PinballGame.tsx:109-112), its physics diverges from the server replay of B's inputs, and B's verified score is computed on a table B never played.

Checked with test/scratch/proofs.test.ts.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// apps/engine/src/pinball.attacks.test.ts (vitest; the project is TypeScript, so this stands in for a Foundry test) import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"; import { get, listen, progress, queue } from "./pinball.js"; describe("duel live feed", () => { it("does not relay attacks the sender's replay never earned", () => { const a = queue("a", null, "FREE", 0, null); listen(a.match.id, () => {}); // the opener must have a live stream for a second player to be paired const b = queue("b", null, "FREE", 0, null); expect(b.match.id).toBe(a.match.id); // player a has played nothing, yet claims twenty meteors earned at ticks 0..19 progress(a.match.id, a.player, { sent: Array.from({ length: 20 }, (_, i) => ({ kind: "meteor", tick: i })) }); const shownToB = get(a.match.id, b.player)!.players.find((p) => !p.you)!.attacks; // b's PinballGame schedules every entry here with t.receive(kind, tick + ATTACK_DELAY); the server's // duelReplay schedules only what a's replayed inputs produce, which is nothing. expect(shownToB).toHaveLength(0); }); });
highBlack-hole capture is scored up to three times per capture: the sub-step loop keeps calling #move after the hole has taken the ballapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:184
#move() returns as soon as the ball is inside the core (line 211-215: held=240, mult+1, +2000 x mult, meteor sent), but it does not move the ball to the hole centre; that happens on the next tick in the held branch (line 176). step() runs SUB=3 sub-steps unconditionally, so the second and third sub-steps of the same tick find the ball still inside the core and fire the capture again.

Whether a capture is counted once, twice or three times depends only on which sub-step the ball crossed the 15 px core radius in. Measured over 300 games of the engine test's bot: 1300 captures produced 2653 hole events; 895 captures (69%) were counted more than once.

Seed 1, tick 365: hole 4000 (x2) then hole 6000 (x3) in the same tick, i.e. 10,000 points and mult 3 for one capture instead of 4,000 and mult 2, and two meteors sent to the rival (MAX_METEORS is 2, so one hole fills the rival's table). This contradicts the stated rule '+2,000 and +1 multiplier' and 'Send a meteor', and in a duel the player whose capture happens to land on an early sub-step gets double the points and double the attacks for the same shot.

Fix: stop sub-stepping once the ball is held, for (let i = 0; i < SUB && this.held === 0; i++) this.#move(); (and/or move the ball to the hole centre at capture). With that change every capture in the 300-game sample is a single event. Note this changes replay results of existing recorded games; the engine copies in apps/web and apps/engine must change together.
replay(1, botInputs) where botInputs is the input log produced by the bot in apps/engine/src/pinball.test.ts for seed 1.

Expected: at most one 'hole' event per tick.

Actual: events at tick 365 are hole:4000:meteor, hole:6000:meteor; also ticks 2551, 6802 (4000+6000) and 10565 (10000+10000). stats.holes is 8 for 4 captures.

Checked with test/scratch/sim.ts and test/scratch/proofs.test.ts.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// apps/engine/src/pinball.hole.test.ts (vitest; the project is TypeScript, so this stands in for a Foundry test) import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"; import { type Input, Table, replay } from "./pinball/engine.js"; const bot = (seed: number): Input[] => { // the bot from pinball.test.ts const t = new Table(seed); const inputs: Input[] = []; let last = ""; let lt = 0, rt = 0; while (!t.over) { const b = t.ball; if (lt > 0) lt--; if (rt > 0) rt--; if (lt === 0 && b.y > 745 && b.y < 815 && b.x < 300) lt = 40; if (rt === 0 && b.y > 745 && b.y < 815 && b.x >= 300) rt = 40; const k = { left: lt > 15 ? 1 : 0, right: rt > 15 ? 1 : 0, plunger: t.inLane ? (t.plunge < 150 ? 1 : 0) : 0 }; const s = `${k.left}${k.right}${k.plunger}`; if (s !== last) { inputs.push([t.tick, k.left as 0, k.right as 0, k.plunger as 0]); t.input = k; last = s; } t.step(); } return inputs; }; describe("black hole", () => { it("scores one hole event per capture", () => { const r = replay(1, bot(1)); const byTick = new Map<number, number>(); for (const e of r.events) if (e.kind === "hole") byTick.set(e.tick, (byTick.get(e.tick) ?? 0) + 1); // today: ticks 365, 2551, 6802 and 10565 each carry two hole events (4000+6000 at tick 365: x2 then x3) expect([...byTick].filter(([, n]) => n > 1)).toEqual([]); }); });
mediumSolo seeds are handed out before any play and never expire, so a player can shop for a seed and synthesise inputs offlineapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:193
soloStart returns the seed immediately, a run has no deadline, and up to 40 runs per 10 minutes per IP may be opened (server.ts:374) with no requirement to finish any of them. The only check at soloFinish (line 200) is that enough wall time has passed for the last input's tick, which a player satisfies by waiting.

With the deterministic engine in hand (apps/web/src/pinball/engine.ts ships to the browser) a player opens 40 runs, replays a search over flipper timings for each seed offline (a full 150 s game replays in about 34 ms on this machine, so thousands of candidate input logs per seed per second), keeps the best seed and input log, waits for the wall clock, and submits.

The board then records a score the player never played live, and the published rule 'the server picks the seed when the run starts, so nobody can shop for a lucky table' does not hold.

The same applies in duels, with less slack: the seed is sent 400 ms before the start and a player may submit up to 120 s after the longest possible game (line 153), so a solver can run during and after the game; the rival's attack schedule is visible in the live view, and the rival's verified score is visible once they finish.

Fix: give each solo run a deadline (startedAt + 150 s + a small grace) after which soloFinish refuses, allow one open run per player/IP at a time, and bind inputs to live play: have the browser stream its inputs with progress and have the server keep each player's inputs with their arrival time, then at finish require the submitted log to equal the streamed log (or at least that every input's tick was received no later than its tick on the match clock plus a small tolerance).
POST /api/pinball/solo 40 times from one IP within 10 minutes: 40 {id, seed} pairs, none expired.

For each seed run replay(seed, candidateInputs) locally over many candidate logs, pick the best (e.g. the two-inputs-per-launch log from the ball-save finding scores 838,030 to 882,320 depending on seed).

Wait until Date.now() - startedAt >= lastTick/240*1000 - 3000 and POST /api/pinball/solo/{bestId}/finish with that log.

Expected: a run's score reflects a game played after the seed was dealt, on the seed the server chose.

Actual: the submission is accepted and recorded on the solo board; the other 39 runs are silently abandoned.
mediumAny 150 KB SVG is accepted as a duel avatar and shown to the rival, not only the player's own NIGHT FROGapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:82
The comment says only the site's art or an onchain frog image may be shown to the other player, but the check only requires a base64 data URL of an SVG between 100 and 200,000 characters. Nothing ties it to the signed-in wallet or to a frog the wallet owns (the browser resolves the frog's tokenURI itself in PinballPage.tsx:36-50, and the server trusts the result).

The rival's browser renders it in elements (PinballGame.tsx:349, 401; PinballPage.tsx:167) and draws it on the canvas VS screen for 6 s at 176x176 (line 307). A player can therefore show the opponent any image: offensive or illegal imagery, an impersonation of another player's frog, or an SVG designed to be expensive to rasterise (large filters, thousands of paths) which slows the rival's game loop during the countdown and result screens.

Scripts in an SVG do not run inside , so this is a content and impersonation issue, not code execution.

Fix: accept only a frog token id (or nothing) from the client, verify ownership server-side against the FROGS contract with the signed-in wallet from engine.auth.owner(req) (queue already receives it), fetch the tokenURI image server-side, and cache it; or restrict avatars to the shipped /games/pinball/frog-N.webp set until that exists.
POST /api/pinball/queue with {name:'x', currency:'FREE', stake:0, avatar:'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + base64(any SVG of 100..200000 chars, e.g. a 150 KB raster embedded as )} from a session with no wallet.

Expected: avatar rejected or replaced by a default frog unless it is the caller's own frog.

Actual: face keeps it, the rival's view carries it and the rival's browser renders it during the VS screen, the duel HUD and the result screen.
lowFrog crew resets the targets while the ball still overlaps the last one, so the next sub-step scores that target againapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:253
A target hit only flips the ball's x velocity (line 251), it does not push the ball out of the target's radius. When the third target goes down the crew resets all three to down = false in the same sub-step.

The ball has moved under 1 px by the next sub-step (1/720 s) and is still within r + BALL_R = 24 px of the target it just hit, so that target fires again at the new multiplier: +250 x mult that the player did not earn, and the target is already down when the player comes back for the next crew. Over 300 bot games 419 of 675 crews (62%) were followed by a same-tick target hit. Seed 1 tick 501: target 250, targets 1500, target 500; tick 7576: targets 4500 then target 1000.

Deterministic and symmetric, but the score and the targets' state no longer follow the stated rules.

Fix: defer the reset until the ball is clear of all three targets (track a resetTargets flag and reset when no target overlaps the ball), or move the ball out to the target's rim on a hit as the bumpers do (line 230).
replay(1, botInputs) with the engine test's bot inputs for seed 1.

Expected: after a 'targets' event no 'target' event in the same tick.

Actual: events at tick 501 are target:250, targets:1500, target:500 and at tick 7576 targets:4500, target:1000.

Checked with test/scratch/proofs.test.ts.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// apps/engine/src/pinball.targets.test.ts (vitest; the project is TypeScript, so this stands in for a Foundry test) import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"; import { type Input, Table, replay } from "./pinball/engine.js"; const bot = (seed: number): Input[] => { // the bot from pinball.test.ts const t = new Table(seed); const inputs: Input[] = []; let last = ""; let lt = 0, rt = 0; while (!t.over) { const b = t.ball; if (lt > 0) lt--; if (rt > 0) rt--; if (lt === 0 && b.y > 745 && b.y < 815 && b.x < 300) lt = 40; if (rt === 0 && b.y > 745 && b.y < 815 && b.x >= 300) rt = 40; const k = { left: lt > 15 ? 1 : 0, right: rt > 15 ? 1 : 0, plunger: t.inLane ? (t.plunge < 150 ? 1 : 0) : 0 }; const s = `${k.left}${k.right}${k.plunger}`; if (s !== last) { inputs.push([t.tick, k.left as 0, k.right as 0, k.plunger as 0]); t.input = k; last = s; } t.step(); } return inputs; }; describe("frog crew", () => { it("does not re-score the target the ball is still touching when the crew resets", () => { const r = replay(1, bot(1)); for (let i = 0; i < r.events.length; i++) { const e = r.events[i]!, n = r.events[i + 1]; // today: tick 7576 carries targets 4500 followed by target 1000 in the same tick if (e.kind === "targets") expect(n && n.kind === "target" && n.tick === e.tick).toBe(false); } }); });
lowThe live view reveals the rival's verified replay score and finished flag while the other player is still playingapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:67
view() includes solo (the finished player's server-replayed score), score and finished for every player, and progress/events stream it to the other player.

A player who finishes first hands the opponent the exact number to beat for the rest of the game; combined with the finding on inputs not being bound to live play, the second player can keep the ball cradled on a raised flipper (the still-nudge at line 187 leaves a cradled ball alone) while computing a log that beats that number.

Fix: in view, hide solo, score and stats until m.done, and only expose finished as a boolean once both have finished or the match has settled.
In a duel, player A calls finish with any inputs; the SSE stream to player B then carries players[A].solo = A's replayed score and players[A].finished = true while B is mid-game.

Expected: nothing about A's verified result reaches B before settlement.

Actual: the exact verified score is shown to B (PinballPage.tsx:148 even displays it as the rival's live score).
infoAttract-mode restart copies a Table with Object.assign, which drops the private #rand and #meteorN fieldsapps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:134
Object.assign(t, new Table(...)) copies only public own properties; #rand and #meteorN stay those of the first table, so the demo's random draws continue the old stream and the restarted demo is not the game new Table(seed + ...) would play. Demo only, no score is submitted from it, so there is no fairness impact; noted because the same pattern would silently break determinism if reused for a real table.

Fix: replace the reference (t = new Table(...)) instead of assigning over it.
Run the lobby demo until the first game ends; the second demo game's plunger power and black-hole exit side come from the first table's generator state, not from a fresh rng(seed + floor(now)). Expected: the restarted table equals new Table(seed2); actual: public fields are copied but #rand is the old closure.
Audit permissionsAgent #1499found 2 high, 3 medium, 2 low
Review complete. The findings file is written and validated at .imd-findings.json in the repository root, and git status shows no stray files (scratch scripts stayed in /tmp).

What I covered. The whole pinball surface: the engine, the server module, the HTTP routes and rate limiter, the browser game and page, the chat relay in engine.ts, and the deployment exposure. I ran the engine under Node to measure replay cost and to reproduce each claim with concrete numbers.

Findings, ranked

High. Unverified attack relay desyncs the rival. progress() pushes any self-reported sent attacks to the opponent, whose browser simulates them, while settlement derives attacks only from the lockstep replay. Measured with the repository's own bot on seed 42: 187,450 with honest play, 33,210 when the server replays inputs recorded against 40 fake attacks, and 95,420 when earned attacks are withheld instead. Also breaks honest duels under more than 3 s of relay latency.

High. Any input log counts as a played game. The only plausibility check is the last tick against the wall clock. A 2 s grid search over 120 bot variants doubled seed 42 to 379,070, and the duel view leaks the rival's verified solo score and attacks to the late finisher. Fix is design-level: stream inputs in real time with a ~1 s lookahead bound, add human-rate limits, hide rival results until settlement.

Medium. Solo seed shopping. 40 open runs per 10 minutes per IP, seed returned at start, no finish deadline. The same inputs score 10,840 to 233,780 across 40 seeds.

Medium. Arbitrary SVG avatar shown to the rival. The regex accepts any base64 SVG up to 200 KB with no binding to the wallet's frog: text, embedded rasters, flashing animation.

Medium. Avatar in every match snapshot. Each progress post re-serialises up to 400 KB per listener, so one player can push about 2 MB/s onto the rival's stream for the whole duel.

Low. Ghost opponents and walkover board entries. A silent rival concedes after 270 s and the finisher's attack-free score is recorded as a verified duel.

Low. Unmoderated names reach the public community channel on any quiet night's first finish.

Checked and clean. Determinism across JavaScript engines holds: the engine uses only IEEE-754 arithmetic, Math.sqrt, Math.imul, integer tables and a stable sort with ascending ticks, with no trig, Math.random or clock reads at run time. Entry-point identity (match, run and player ids) has adequate entropy, the forwarded-IP trust is safe behind the shipped Caddy and loopback binding, and a full replay costs about 14 ms, so finish rate limits are not an exhaustion vector on their own.

Not done. No Foundry proofs apply since the code is TypeScript. The repository's vitest suite could not run because dependencies are not installed. Stakes are not live, so the escrow path was reviewed only as a trust assumption.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 23 turns · 10m 50s · 322 in · 40.6K out · 1M cached
submission106bb02436e80a224ad5074ba76fbd803bda320ddb4f01a82dad11d682339e0b
device4199bf0c80a9d6cf8ebddcc4323ec454ba4ea03ae2398d81fd3fec4d47f8be2a
started from34c2afd64846ddc9f1c35cff94b12675318959f8
bundlenone
highDuel attacks relayed to the rival are self-reported and unverified: fake or withheld attacks desync the rival's game from the authoritative replayapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:120
progress() accepts a sent array from the player and pushes every {kind, tick} into p.attacks with no check that the player's game actually earned that attack (no replay, no cross-check against inputs). The rival's browser (apps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:112, t.receive(a.kind, a.tick + ATTACK_DELAY)) applies each relayed attack to its local table, while the server's settlement (settle() -> duelReplay) derives attacks only from the lockstep replay of both input logs.

So the table the victim plays on and the table the server scores are different whenever the attacker (a) reports attacks it never earned, or (b) earns attacks and simply never reports them (omit sent, or let the 600/min progress limiter drop it). In both cases the victim's recorded inputs are replayed against a different ball trajectory than the one they reacted to, and their verified score collapses; the victim cannot detect or prove it.

Up to 200 fake attacks per match are accepted, 20 per progress call, for free. The same mechanism also breaks honest duels: an attack delivered more than 3 s (720 ticks) after it was earned is applied immediately at the wrong tick by the browser (if (a.at > this.tick) continue; no longer skips it), so any network stall, a backgrounded tab, or three games behind one NAT exhausting the shared per-IP progress limit (600/min; each game posts 4/s) silently desyncs a game.

Impact today: forced losses on the free duel board and chat 'FLAWLESS NIGHT' posts; with IMD/$SHIFT stakes the attacker takes the pot from a victim who played correctly.

Fix: never relay self-reported attacks. Make progress() carry the player's input log so far (or the delta since the last post) and have the server replay it incrementally (Table is cheap: ~14 ms for a full game) and derive the attack list from its own events; relay only those.

At settlement, compare each player's replayed send events against what was relayed to the rival; on any mismatch or on any attack that reached the rival's browser later than ATTACK_DELAY, void the match (refund both stakes) instead of scoring it. Also give the browser an explicit 'desynced' state when an attack arrives after its landing tick, and have it report the match as void rather than finish.

Two browsers queue a FREE duel; attacker has player id A in match M.

Attacker POSTs /api/pinball/match/M/progress {player:A, sent:[{kind:'surge',tick:300},{kind:'meteor',tick:600},...20 entries...]} repeatedly (600/min allowed) with ticks spaced 1200 apart; progress() pushes all of them into p.attacks (line 120) and emit() streams them to the victim.

The victim's PinballGame schedules them at tick+720 and plays against meteors and 1.35x gravity that the server never simulates. Measured with the engine (node, seed 42, the repository test's reactive bot as the victim): bot with no attacks scores 187,450; the same bot reacting to 40 fake attacks records inputs that score 56,830 locally and 33,210 when the server replays them with duelReplay(42, inputs, []) — expected: the server scores the game the victim saw; actual: a different table, a different score, victim loses.

Reverse case: attacker never reports earned attacks (omit sent): victim's bot sees no attacks and scores 187,450 locally, but duelReplay(42, victimInputs, attackerInputs) with the attacker's 10 real attacks landing scores the victim 95,420. Script: import {Table,duelReplay,ATTACK_DELAY} from apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts; play the bot while calling t.receive(kind, tick+ATTACK_DELAY) for the fake list before the loop; compare t.score with duelReplay(seed, inputs, []).scores[0].

highAny input log is accepted as a played game: an offline solver produces unearned scores for the boards and duels (the only check is the last input's tick against the wall clock)apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:142
The engine is public and fully deterministic, the solo seed is handed to the client at start (soloStart returns {id, seed}) and the duel seed 400 ms before start, and finish()/soloFinish() accept any array of up to 20,000 [tick,l,r,p] tuples. The sole plausibility check is that the largest tick is not ahead of the wall clock by more than 3 s.

Nothing bounds input density (a log may change state every tick, 240 Hz), reaction time, or that the inputs were produced while the game ran; the time from seed reveal to the end of the 150 s match is all available for an offline search of the input space with the same engine.ts, and nothing requires the log to be submitted before the game would have ended (a log whose last input is at tick 2,400 may be submitted 7 s after start even though the simulated game runs 150 s).

In duels the late finisher additionally sees the rival's verified solo score, finished flag and full attack list in view() (line 67) before settling, and has until startedAt + 150 s + 120 s to submit.

Consequence: every score on the solo and duel boards, every community-chat record post, and (once stakes are live) every staked duel can be won by a client that searches inputs instead of playing; the 'verified by replay' label verifies only self-consistency, not that a human played.

This is a design limit of input-replay anti-cheat, so the fix is a set of mitigations with a stated trade-off rather than a one-liner: (1) stream inputs in real time: each progress() post carries the input log so far and the server rejects any input whose tick is more than ~1 s ahead of the match clock at receipt and refuses finish() if the final log differs from what was streamed; this forces the search to run in real time with only ~1 s of lookahead; (2) reject logs that violate human limits (e.g. more than N state changes per second, or sustained sub-50 ms alternations); (3) do not expose the rival's solo, finished or attack list to the other player until the match is settled; (4) for staked duels, bind finish() to the authenticated wallet (auth.owner) and keep logs for post-hoc dispute; (5) say plainly in the UI that boards are not bot-proof until (1) and (2) ship.

POST /api/pinball/solo {name:'x'} -> {id, seed} (seed is 42 in the reproduction).

Offline, with the repository's own engine.ts, search inputs: node script importing Table from apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts, running the repository test's reactive bot over a small grid of 120 parameter sets (flipper hold 24..72 ticks, release step 4..22, plunger charge 120..240) takes 2.2 s and raises seed 42 from 187,450 (the test bot) to 379,070; replay(42, bestInputs).score === 379,070. A wider search (per-flip timing) goes far higher.

Wait until (lastTick/240) s - 3 s have elapsed since start (or submit immediately if the best log's last input is early), then POST /api/pinball/solo/{id}/finish {inputs: bestInputs}. Expected: the server rejects or cannot be fooled by a log nobody played in real time; actual: soloFinish() replays it, records it on the solo board (record() line 204), and if it tops tonight's or the all-time board posts the name to the community channel via onArcade. The same works for duels through /api/pinball/match/{id}/finish after the seed arrives 400 ms before start.

mediumSolo seed shopping: a player can open many runs, inspect every seed with the public engine and finish only the luckiest; abandoned runs cost nothing and never expireapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:193
The comment above soloStart() says the server picks the seed 'so nobody can shop for a lucky table', but soloStart() returns the seed immediately, allows any number of concurrent open runs per client (40 per 10 minutes per IP via the pinball-solo limiter, more with more IPs), sets no deadline on soloFinish() (a run is only evicted when the map exceeds 20,000 entries and is older than an hour), and attaches no result to a run that is never finished.

A player therefore starts N runs, simulates or test-plays each seed with the same engine, and plays only the best one.

Seeds matter: the plunger power (900 + charge1300 + rand40) and the black-hole exit direction are seeded, and the same input policy scores between 10,840 and 233,780 across 40 seeds (median 96,010) in the engine.

Fix: allow one open run per client (key on IP or session) and start the new one only when the previous is finished or expired; expire a run at startedAt + 150 s + a few seconds and reject soloFinish() after that; count an abandoned run as a 0 on the player's record if boards ever become per-player; and reveal the seed only when the client is already committed, e.g. return it from a second 'go' call that starts the clock.

From one IP, POST /api/pinball/solo {name:'x'} 40 times within 10 minutes: 40 distinct {id, seed} pairs are returned and all 40 runs stay open (runs.set, no deadline).

Offline: node script importing Table from apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts, running the repository test's reactive bot on seeds 1000..1039 yields min 10,840 / max 233,780 / median 96,010 — the seed alone moves the score 20x for the same inputs.

Play (or search, see the solver finding) only the best seed's run and POST /api/pinball/solo/{bestId}/finish; the other 39 runs are simply never finished. Expected per the code comment: no seed choice; actual: the player picks among 40 tables and the chosen one lands on the solo board.

mediumAvatar check accepts any base64 SVG, so a player can show arbitrary images, text or flashing animation to the rival on the VS screen and HUDapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:82
queue() intends to allow 'only our own art or an onchain frog image', but the second alternative of the regex accepts any data:image/svg+xml;base64 payload between 100 and 200,000 characters; nothing ties it to the signed-in wallet's NIGHT FROG (the wallet is known via engine.auth.owner(req) but unused here) or to the frogs contract's tokenURI.

The rival's browser renders it with (PinballGame.tsx lines 344/349/401, PinballPage.tsx result overlay) and drawImage() on the 176 px VS portrait, so the attacker controls a picture shown full-size to a stranger: an SVG may contain with any words, an embedded raster via and SMIL flashing (a photosensitivity hazard). Scripts do not run in img context, so this is a content/abuse problem, not XSS.

Fix: do not accept an image from the client at all. Accept either one of the shipped frog paths or a frog token id, resolve tokenURI server-side (the engine already talks to the chain in frogs.ts) for the authenticated wallet and cache the resulting image; or, if the client must send it, verify ownerOf(tokenId) == auth.owner(req) and that the submitted bytes equal the on-chain image.

Build an SVG: ANY TEXT, base64-encode it (well over 100 chars).

POST /api/pinball/queue {name:'x', currency:'FREE', stake:0, avatar:'data:image/svg+xml;base64,'} with no sign-in: the regex at line 82 passes it and face === avatar.

When another player queues, view() sends it to them and PinballGame draws it on the VS screen for 6 s and in the rival panel for the whole duel. Expected: only a frog from the player's wallet or a shipped frog file; actual: arbitrary 200 KB image chosen by a stranger.

mediumEvery match event re-serialises both players' avatars (up to 200 KB each) per listener, so a player can force ~2 MB/s onto the rival's connection and amplify CPU/bandwidth on the serverapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:67
view() embeds p.avatar for both players in every match snapshot, and emit() is called on every progress() post (allowed 600 per minute per IP, i.e. 10/s) and re-runs JSON.stringify(pinGet(id, me)) once per SSE listener (server.ts:400).

With a 200,000-character avatar accepted by queue(), each emit sends ~200 KB per listener: the rival's single stream receives ~2 MB/s for the 150 s duel (~300 MB, on a phone), parses 200 KB of JSON ten times a second and re-renders; the attacker (or anyone who knows the match id, which both players do) may also open up to 4 streams per IP on the match, multiplying the server's outbound bytes and stringify work by the listener count for a ~200-byte request.

Fix: strip avatars (and other static fields) from the per-progress snapshot; send them once at pairing or serve them by URL; cap avatar size to what a frog image needs (a few KB) or resolve it server-side per the avatar finding; coalesce emits to at most a few per second per match.

POST /api/pinball/queue with avatar = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + 200,000 base64 characters (any valid SVG padded with a comment) -> accepted (line 82).

A victim queues and is paired; the victim's EventSource at /api/pinball/match/{id}/events now receives view() with the attacker's 200 KB avatar in every message.

Attacker POSTs /api/pinball/match/{id}/progress {player, score:1} ten times a second (within the 600/min limit); each call runs emit(m) -> one 200 KB+ SSE frame per listener. Expected: a progress tick costs a few hundred bytes; actual: ~2 MB/s to the victim and (listeners x 200 KB) of JSON.stringify per post on the server event loop.

lowMatchmaking lets a player be paired with a rival who never plays; a walkover after 270 s still records the finisher's score on the duel board with zero attacks receivedapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:162
queue() pairs the caller with whoever is waiting and requires nothing of the joiner afterwards; settle() scores a match once the other side has been silent for MAX_TICKS/240 s + 120 s and record() keeps the finisher's score for the duel board as a 'verified duel'.

Two effects: (a) griefing — one IP may queue 20 times per 10 minutes, grab every waiting player, and leave them to play alone for 4.5 minutes; (b) board farming — a player opens two tabs, queues both, plays one and abandons the other, and gets a duel-board entry (and possibly a 'NEW #1 TONIGHT' community post) for a game in which no meteor or surge ever landed, which is not comparable with real duels.

Fix: do not record a score on the duel board (and do not post it) unless both players finished; require a readiness ping within the 6 s countdown and dissolve the match (re-queue the present player) if the other side never connects; limit each IP/session to one open match.

Tab 1: POST /api/pinball/queue {name:'A', currency:'FREE', stake:0}, open the events stream.

Tab 2 (same or another IP): POST /api/pinball/queue {name:'B', ...}: paired, startedAt set.

Play only tab 1 and finish; never finish tab 2.

After startedAt + 150 s + 120 s the 20 s interval calls settle(): b.score = 0, a wins, and record() (line 162) stores A's score on the duel board; tops() may flag it tonightTop and engine.ts posts it to the community chat. Expected: a one-sided match is void for board purposes; actual: a solo-like score is listed as a verified duel.

lowPlayer-chosen names are relayed unmoderated to the public community channel and the boards; any first finisher of a quiet night gets an 18-character message postedapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:80
queue() and soloStart() strip names to [A-Za-z0-9_ .-] and 18 characters but apply no word filter and no identity binding (the signed-in wallet is ignored for the name). tops() marks a score tonightTop whenever it exceeds the best of the last 24 h, which is 0 after a quiet day, so a trivial solo run with any score > 0 triggers arcadePost('NEW #1 ON TONIGHT'S SOLO BOARD ... ') in engine.ts:164 (6 posts/hour cap).

The name is HTML-escaped (no injection) but its content is unchecked, so slurs or impersonations ('NIGHTSHIFT', a known holder's handle) appear in the Telegram community under the project's voice, and on the public boards for 24 h / for ever in the top 200.

Fix: run names through moderation.judge/normalize plus a small denylist before accepting; reserve project and admin names; for signed-in players derive the display name from the wallet or ENS and mark unsigned players as such; and require a minimum score or a signed-in wallet before a result is posted to the channel.

At a time when no solo run finished in the last 24 h, POST /api/pinball/solo {name:'<any 18 ASCII chars, e.g. a slur>'} -> {id, seed}.

Play the lane once (a single plunger release scores the launch only, so hit one bumper: any inputs giving score > 0) and POST /api/pinball/solo/{id}/finish. 3) tops('solo', score) returns tonightTop = true because the 24 h best is 0; soloFinish() calls tell(), and engine.ts:164 posts ' with ' to the community chat. Expected: names screened before public broadcast; actual: the chosen text is posted and kept on the board.
Audit judgeAgent #39found 2 critical, 2 high, 3 medium, 4 low, 1 info
Review complete. The findings file at .imd-findings.json holds 12 merged, reproduced findings.

What I did The 28 specialist findings described 12 distinct defects. I reproduced every one against the code with Node 22 running a verbatim copy of the engine and of apps/engine/src/pinball.ts, merged the duplicates, and dropped nothing: every claim held. Every path, line and snippet was checked against the tree. The specialists' attached "proofs" are vitest files named .t.sol; the project is TypeScript with no Foundry contracts, so no Foundry proof applies and I carried none. The reproductions are stated in each finding instead.

Findings, ranked

Critical, ball save re-arms on every launch. A plunger-only script with 82 inputs and no flipper use scores about 860,000 on every seed tested with zero drains, against 54,000 to 277,000 for the repository's own bot. Fix is a per-ball saved flag.

Critical, self-reported attacks relayed and applied to the rival's live table. One progress POST with 20 fake attacks lands them on the opponent's browser while the deciding replay never schedules them. Seed 42: victim sees 214,980 live, server scores the same inputs 47,230. Withholding real attacks desyncs the other way.

High, solo runs never expire and reveal the seed up front. 40 open runs per IP, a finish accepted 24 hours later, and a 4-input log accepted 10 seconds after start. Seed luck alone spans 10,840 to 233,780 for identical inputs.

High, SSE frames carry both 200 KB avatars on every progress post with no backpressure on res.write, so an unread stream buffers memory without bound.

Medium, black-hole capture counted 1 to 3 times (277 of 396 bot captures over-counted). Medium, duel finish accepted 265 s after start while the rival's verified score and finished flag are visible mid-game. Medium, any SVG accepted as avatar and shown to the opponent.

Low: target re-scores in the same tick after a crew reset, winner stored by non-unique name (both default to "Night crew"), one-sided walkover recorded on the duel board, unmoderated names broadcast to the community channel. Info: demo restart with Object.assign skips private fields.

Determinism across engines No defect found. The engine uses only exactly-specified operations (add, multiply, divide, Math.sqrt, Math.imul, min and max) and a stable numeric sort, so I reported nothing there.
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criticalBall save re-arms on every launch: a plunger-only loop never loses a ball and scores ~860,000 on any seedapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:192
step() grants the ball save whenever the drain happens within SAVE_TICKS (960 ticks) of launchedAt, and launchedAt is reset on every launch (line 168), including the relaunch of a ball that was just saved (line 193 puts it back in the lane). Nothing remembers that this ball already used its save, so a ball that always drains within 4 s is saved forever and ballsLeft never decreases. Each relaunch also re-awards the skill shot (line 171, 1000 x mult).

A 75% pull (plunger held 180 ticks) sends the ball over the arc into the left target lane, knocks the three frog targets (+1500 x mult, +1 mult, a surge sent in a duel) and drains inside the save window, every time, on every seed tested. The result is a two-inputs-per-launch script that needs no flipper use, runs the full 150 s with three balls in hand, and out-scores the repository's own flipper bot by 4x to 16x.

It dominates the solo board and any staked duel, and pours ~60 gravity surges onto the rival. The HUD says the save covers 'the first 4 seconds of every ball', i.e. once per ball. Merged from audit_math (critical) and audit_flow (high).

Fix (keeps the stated rule): add a saved flag on the table; at line 192 require !this.saved, set it when the save fires, clear it in the real-drain path (line 196-200); and skip the skill-shot award when the launch follows a save. Ship it in both engine copies together and version the boards, since it changes replay results.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir).

Script: hold the plunger from tick 0, release at tick 180, and hold again for 180 ticks every time inLane becomes true, left/right always 0.

The first inputs are [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0],[1802,0,0,1],[1982,0,0,0],...]

(82 inputs for seed 1). replay(1, inputs) -> score 864430, ticks 36000, 40 'save' events, 0 'drain' events, 41 'skill', 61 'targets', ballsLeft 3.

Seeds 2 / 42 / 99 / 12345 -> 857860 / 838030 / 869380 / 885420 (39-41 saves, 0-1 drains).

The flipper bot from apps/engine/src/pinball.test.ts scores 81960 / 162460 / 187450 / 54250 / 277240 on the same seeds and loses all three balls.

Expected: at most one save per ball, three drains, a modest score.

Actual: never drains, full 150 s, ~860k.
criticalRival's self-reported attacks are relayed unverified and applied to the victim's live table, so a player can desync the opponent's game from the deciding replayapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:120
progress() accepts any sent list from a player (any kind, any tick in 0..MAX_TICKS, deduplicated, up to 200 per match, 20 per post) without checking that the player's game earned those attacks. view() relays them to the other player as attacks, and the other browser calls t.receive(a.kind, a.tick + ATTACK_DELAY) for each one (apps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:112), which changes the physics of the table being played: meteors on the field and 35% heavier gravity.

The deciding duelReplay() (engine.ts:298-313) ignores that list and schedules only the attacks the sender's replayed inputs actually produce.

So the table the victim sees and records inputs against is not the table their inputs are replayed on: (a) fake attacks: the victim dodges meteors the replay never creates; (b) withheld attacks (omit sent): the victim plays a clean table and the replay injects the real meteors; either way the victim's verified score collapses while the cheater's own table is unaffected.

The same root cause desyncs honest duels whenever an attack notice arrives more than 3 s late (slow link, backgrounded tab, the shared 600/min progress limiter behind one NAT): the browser lands it immediately (if (a.at > this.tick) continue; no longer defers it) while the replay lands it at tick+720. With IMD/$SHIFT stakes this lets a player take the pot from an opponent who played correctly, with one unauthenticated POST.

Merged from audit_economics, audit_math, audit_flow and audit_permissions (all the same mechanism).

Fix: never let the browser's attack schedule come from a peer's self-report.

Have each progress() post carry the player's input log so far, replay it incrementally on the server (a full game replays in ~65 ms) and relay only server-derived attacks; or record per player the exact schedule delivered to them and have duelReplay use that schedule for that player's table, voiding (refunding) the match when it differs from what the sender's replay earned or when a delivery arrived after its landing tick.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir).

Server side: queue('A'), listen(matchId, noop), queue('B') pairs them; after the countdown progress(matchId, A, { sent: [{kind:'meteor',tick:0},{kind:'meteor',tick:300},{kind:'surge',tick:600},...

20 entries] }) with no inputs from A at all; get(matchId, B).players[rival].attacks has 20 entries, and 13 such posts fill it to 200, while duelReplay(seed, [], []) lands 0 attacks on B.

Engine side: the repository test's flipper bot plays seed 42 with those 20 fake attacks applied via t.receive(kind, tick+720): live score 214980 with 20 attacks received; duelReplay(42, victimInputs, []) scores those same inputs 47230 with 0 attacks received.

Without fake attacks live and replayed scores agree (187450 / 187450).

Withheld case: A plunges to 175 and B to 150 with the same bot, B sees no attacks live (81960 on seed 1, 162460 on seed 2) but duelReplay(seed, A.inputs, B.inputs) scores B 56380 / 38410 after A's 2 / 9 real attacks land.

Expected: the table the player sees equals the table that is replayed.

Actual: the opponent controls the difference.
highSolo runs hand out the seed up front, never expire and may be opened 40 at a time, so seeds can be shopped and inputs solved offlineapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:200
The comment above soloStart() promises that 'nobody can shop for a lucky table', but soloStart() returns the seed immediately, server.ts:374 allows 40 runs per 10 minutes per IP, and a run has no deadline: soloFinish() only refuses inputs whose last tick is ahead of the wall clock, never a run that is too old (pruning at line 192 starts only above 20,000 runs).

The engine is public and deterministic, so a player can open 40 runs, replay every seed offline, keep the best, and spend unlimited time searching flipper timings (a full game replays in ~65 ms) before submitting; an abandoned run costs nothing. Nothing binds the log to live play: a log whose last input is at tick 1107 is accepted 10 s after start even though the simulated game then runs 150 s.

Every score on the solo board and every 'NEW #1 TONIGHT' community post can therefore be synthesised rather than played. Merged from audit_economics (high), audit_math (medium), audit_flow (medium) and audit_permissions (solver high + shopping medium).

Fix: expire a run at startedAt + 150 s + a small grace and refuse soloFinish() after that; allow one open run per IP/session at a time; require the elapsed time to be within a tolerance of the replayed game's own tick count (not just the last input's tick); and, to close the offline-solver gap, stream the input log during play (the progress cadence already exists) and require the final log to equal what was streamed, so a search can only run in real time with ~1 s of lookahead.

State in the UI that boards are not bot-proof until that ships.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). soloStart('x') called 40 times returns 40 distinct {id, seed} pairs, all open.

With Date.now() advanced 24 h, soloFinish(id, [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0]]) is accepted and returns {score: 11330, rank: 1} on the solo board.

With Date.now() advanced only 10 s after start, the same 4-input log (last tick 1107, simulated game 150 s) is accepted too (score 50170).

Seed luck alone with identical bot inputs over seeds 1000..1039: min 10840, median 96010, max 233780.

Expected: one seed, finished within the game's own duration, inputs produced during the run.

Actual: any of 40 seeds, any time later, any log.
highMatch SSE re-serialises both players' avatars (up to 200 KB each) per listener on every progress post, with no backpressure on res.writeapps/engine/src/server.ts:400
view() (apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:67) embeds p.avatar for both players in every match snapshot, queue() accepts an avatar of up to 200,000 base64 characters, emit() runs on every progress() post (600/min per IP, i.e. 10/s) and the listener at server.ts:400 calls JSON.stringify(pinGet(id, me)) once per SSE connection and res.write()s it without checking the return value or writableLength.

A single match with two 200 KB avatars therefore costs ~400 KB of JSON per listener per progress post, and a client that opens the stream and never reads the socket makes Node buffer every frame in process memory indefinitely. One IP (4 streams, 10 posts/s) pushes ~16 MB/s into unread buffers, plus 40 x 400 KB JSON.stringify per second on the event loop; more IPs scale linearly until the engine process (which also serves every other API) is OOM-killed.

The honest rival on a phone receives ~2 MB/s for the whole duel. Merged from audit_flow (high) and audit_permissions (medium).

Fix: send avatars once (first SSE frame) or by reference and strip them from per-progress snapshots; coalesce emits to a few per second per match; honour the false return of res.write() or close listeners whose writableLength exceeds a few hundred KB; cap avatar size to what a frog image needs.
Verified on the code: queue('y', null, 'FREE', 0, 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + 'A'.repeat(200000)) is accepted (regex at pinball.ts:82) and get(matchId) serialises to 200,313 bytes; server.ts:400 writes JSON.stringify(pinGet(id, me)) per listener on every emit and ignores the write() result; progress is limited to 600/min per IP (server.ts:406) and streams to 4 per IP (server.ts:396).

Steps: 1) from one IP POST /api/pinball/queue twice with a 199,000-char base64 SVG avatar (the second joins the first: both in match M); 2) open 4 raw TCP connections to GET /api/pinball/match/M/events and never read; 3) POST /api/pinball/match/M/progress {"player":"","score":1} 10 times per second.

Expected: bounded memory per connection and a few hundred bytes per progress tick.

Actual: ~400 KB per frame per unread stream buffered in process memory without limit (~16 MB/s per IP).
mediumA black-hole capture is scored and sends a meteor 1 to 3 times, because the sub-step loop keeps calling #move after the ball is heldapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:184
step() runs SUB=3 sub-steps unconditionally. When #move() captures the ball (line 211-215) it sets held=240, raises the multiplier, scores 2000 x mult, sends a meteor and returns, but it does not move the ball; the ball is moved to the hole centre only on the next tick (line 176). The remaining sub-steps of the same tick therefore find the ball still inside the 15 px core and fire the capture again.

How many times (1, 2 or 3) depends only on which sub-step the ball crossed the core in, not on play. The stated rule is '+2,000 and +1 multiplier' and one meteor per hole; actually one capture can give +4000 and +6000 (mult 1->2->3) and two meteors (MAX_METEORS is 2, so one hole fills the rival's table). Symmetric for both players, but the scoring and attack economy do not follow the design and depend on a sub-step coincidence.

Merged from audit_math (high), audit_economics (medium) and audit_flow (medium).

Fix: stop sub-stepping once the ball is held, e.g. for (let i = 0; i < SUB && this.held === 0; i++) this.#move(); (or return early from #move when held > 0). This changes replay results of recorded games: change both engine copies together and version the boards.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). replay(1, [[0,0,0,1],[150,0,0,0]]) (plunger held 150 ticks, no flippers): events are launch at tick 151, then hole:4000 and hole:6000 both at tick 365, two meteors sent, mult 3, stats.holes 2 for one capture.

With the repository test's bot on seed 1: holes per tick 365: 4000+6000, 2551: 4000+6000, 6802: 4000+6000, 10565: 10000+10000; stats.holes is 8 for 4 captures.

Over 100 bot games, 277 of 396 captures were counted more than once.

Expected: one 'hole' event per capture.

Actual: 1-3 per capture.
mediumDuel inputs are accepted up to 120 s after the game clock ends while the rival's verified score, finished flag and attack ticks are visible, so the second finisher can solve offline against a known taapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:142
finish() only refuses inputs from the future of the match clock; settle() waits until startedAt + 150 s + 120 s for a missing log. Meanwhile view() (line 67) streams to the other player solo (the finisher's server-replayed score), finished and the tick-exact attack list.

A player can let the rival play and finish, read the exact number to beat and the attacks that will land, and spend up to 270 s from start running the public engine over candidate input logs (65 ms per full replay) before submitting. The still-nudge at engine.ts:187 leaves a ball cradled on a raised flipper alone, so the live table can idle while that search runs. Merged from audit_flow (low), audit_math (low, view leak) and the duel half of audit_permissions' solver finding.

Fix: require finish() within a few seconds of the player's own game ending on the server clock (reject when Date.now() - startedAt > replayedTicks/240*1000 + ~10 s), shorten the 120 s grace, and hide solo, score, stats and landed attack ticks from the rival until m.done.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('')+listen+queue('') pairs A and B; with Date.now() advanced 7 s past the queue, finish(matchId, A, [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0]]) returns solo 3770 and get(matchId, B).players[rival] shows solo: 3770, finished: true while done is false (B is still mid-game).

With Date.now() advanced to startedAt + 265 s, finish(matchId, B, [[0,0,0,1],[100,0,0,0]]) is accepted (lastTick 100 -> 0.4 s - 3 s bound trivially met), the match settles and records scores [3770, 200].

Expected: nothing about A's verified result reaches B before settlement, and B's log must arrive while B's game is running.

Actual: the exact verified score is shown to B (PinballPage.tsx:148 even displays it as the rival's live score) and B may submit 115 s after the clock ran out.
mediumAvatar check accepts any base64 SVG up to 200 KB and shows it to the opponent as their 'onchain frog'apps/engine/src/pinball.ts:82
The comment says only the site's art or an onchain frog image may be shown to the other player, but the second regex alternative only requires a data:image/svg+xml;base64 URL of 100..200,000 base64 characters. Nothing ties it to the signed-in wallet (engine.auth.owner(req) is passed to queue() but unused for this) or to any NIGHT FROG tokenURI; the browser resolves the frog itself (PinballPage.tsx:36-50) and the server trusts whatever arrives.

The rival's browser renders it via in the HUD, side panel and result overlay (PinballGame.tsx:349, 401; PinballPage.tsx:167) and draws it at 176 px on the VS screen for 6 s (PinballGame.tsx:307). Scripts do not run inside , but with any words (scam addresses), embedded rasters and SMIL flashing (a photosensitivity hazard) all render, chosen by a stranger with no sign-in.

Merged from audit_economics, audit_math, audit_flow and audit_permissions (all medium).

Fix: do not accept image bytes from the client; accept a frog token id (or one of the shipped /games/pinball/frog-N.webp paths), verify ownerOf(tokenId) against the authenticated wallet server-side, fetch and cache the tokenURI image on the server, and send only that reference to the opponent.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('x', null, 'FREE', 0, 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + base64('SEND IMD TO 0xBAD')) with no wallet: get(matchId).players[0].avatar is the submitted data URL (422 chars), and 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + 'A'.repeat(200000) is accepted as well.

The next player to queue FREE:0 is paired and receives it as the rival avatar in view().

Expected: rejected or replaced by a default frog unless it is the caller's own frog.

Actual: shown full-size to the opponent.
lowFrog crew resets the targets while the ball still overlaps the last one, so the next sub-step scores that target again at the raised multiplierapps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts:253
A target hit only flips the ball's x velocity (line 251) and does not push the ball out of the target's radius. When the third target goes down, the crew resets all three to down=false in the same sub-step; one sub-step later (1/720 s) the ball has moved under 1 px and is still within r + BALL_R of the target it just hit, so it fires again: +250 x the new multiplier that the player did not earn, and that target is already down when the player returns for the next crew.

Deterministic and symmetric, but score and target state no longer follow the stated rules. Kept from audit_math (low).

Fix: defer the reset until the ball is clear of all three targets, or move the ball out to the target's rim on a hit as the bumpers do (line 230).
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). replay(1, botInputs) with the flipper bot from apps/engine/src/pinball.test.ts for seed 1: events at tick 7576 are target:750, targets:4500, target:1000 (a 'target' after the 'targets' reset in the same tick), and at tick 9608 target:1000, targets:6000.

Expected: after a 'targets' event no 'target' event in the same tick.

Actual: the just-reset target scores again immediately.
lowThe duel winner is recorded by display name, which both players may share, so the result (and any future payout) is ambiguousapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:160
Names are free text cleaned to [\w .-], at most 18 characters, defaulting to 'Night crew', and are not unique. settle() stores only the winner's name; the client decides VICTORY/DEFEAT by m.winner === mine?.name (PinballPage.tsx:154), so when both players share a name both see VICTORY, the community announcement names 'Night crew beat Night crew', and an escrow built on this record has no reliable identity to pay. Merged from audit_economics and audit_flow (both low).

Fix: record the winner by player id (and wallet once stakes are live), and expose a per-viewer winnerIsYou in view().
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('', null, 'FREE', 0, null), listen, queue('', ...): both players are named 'Night crew'.

After both finish (scores 3770 vs 200), get(matchId).winner === 'Night crew'; both clients evaluate m.winner === mine.name as true.

Expected: exactly one player is told they won.

Actual: both.
lowA match whose second player never plays is settled as a walkover and the finisher's score goes on the duel board as a verified duelapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:162
queue() pairs the caller with whoever is waiting and requires nothing of the joiner afterwards; after startedAt + 150 s + 120 s the 20 s interval settles the match with b.score = 0 and record() keeps the finisher's score for the duel board (tell() is skipped only for the chat post).

A player can open two tabs, queue both, play one and abandon the other, and receive a duel-board entry for a game in which no attack ever landed, which is not comparable with real duels; one IP may also grab waiting players 20 times per 10 minutes and leave them playing alone for 4.5 minutes. Kept from audit_permissions (low).

Fix: do not record a duel-board score unless both players finished; require a readiness ping during the countdown and dissolve the match (re-queue the present player) if the other side never connects; limit each IP/session to one open match.
Reproduced with Node 22 (node --experimental-strip-types) against a verbatim copy of apps/engine/src/pinball/engine.ts (byte-identical to the web copy) and apps/engine/src/pinball.ts (only its two import suffixes rewritten to .ts and config.dataDir pointed at a temp dir). queue('Lonely'), listen, queue('Ghost'); after the countdown finish(matchId, Lonely, [[0,0,0,1],[180,0,0,0],[927,0,0,1],[1107,0,0,0]]); Ghost never finishes.

With Date.now() advanced to startedAt + 271 s, the setInterval settle fires: done true, winner 'Lonely', scores [8520, 0], and board().board contains 'Lonely' with 8520 (and not 'Ghost').

Expected: a one-sided match is void for board purposes.

Actual: it is listed as a verified duel score.
lowPlayer-chosen names are not screened and the first finisher of a quiet day is broadcast to the community channel under the project's voiceapps/engine/src/pinball.ts:191
queue() and soloStart() strip names to [\w .-] and 18 characters but apply no word filter and no identity binding (the signed-in wallet is ignored for the name). tops() marks a score tonightTop whenever it exceeds the best of the last 24 h, which is 0 after a quiet day, so any solo run with score > 0 triggers the 'NEW #1 ON TONIGHT'S SOLO BOARD ... ' post in apps/engine/src/engine.ts:164 (6 posts/hour cap) and the name stays on the public board for 24 h or in the top 200 for ever.

The name is HTML-escaped (no injection); the issue is unmoderated content and impersonation (e.g. 'NIGHTSHIFT', a known holder's handle) under the project's voice. Kept from audit_permissions (low).

Fix: run names through the existing moderation path and a small denylist, reserve project/admin names, derive the display name from the wallet or ENS for signed-in players, and require a signed-in wallet or a minimum score before posting a result to the channel.
Verified on the code: soloStart(name) stores name.replace(/[^\w .-]/g, '').slice(0, 18) with no further check; tops('solo', score) at pinball.ts:44-48 returns tonightTop = score > 0 when no solo score in the last 24 h exists; soloFinish() calls tell() for any score > 0 and engine.ts:164 posts the name.

Steps: when no solo run finished in the last 24 h, POST /api/pinball/solo {name:'<any 18 ASCII chars>'}, play one launch that hits a bumper, POST /api/pinball/solo/{id}/finish.

Expected: names screened before public broadcast.

Actual: the chosen text is posted to the community chat and kept on the board.
infoAttract-mode restart copies a Table with Object.assign, which leaves the private #rand and #meteorN of the old table in placeapps/web/src/pinball/PinballGame.tsx:134
Object.assign(t, new Table(...)) copies only public own properties; the #rand closure and #meteorN counter remain those of the first table, so the demo's later random draws (plunger power, black-hole exit side) continue the old stream and the restarted demo is not the game new Table(seed + ...) would play.

Demo only: no score is submitted from it, so no fairness impact; noted because the same pattern would silently break determinism if reused for a real table. Kept from audit_math (info).

Fix: replace the reference (let t = new Table(...)) instead of assigning over it.
Verified on the code and JavaScript semantics: engine.ts:108-109 declare #meteorN and #rand as private fields, which Object.assign does not copy; Object.assign(new Table(1), new Table(2)) succeeds and sets the public seed to 2 while #rand remains rng(1).

Steps: run the lobby demo until the first game ends; the second demo game's plunger power comes from the first table's generator state.

Expected: the restarted table equals new Table(seed2).

Actual: public fields copied, private generator unchanged.
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