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Audit this TypeScript client for the IMD swarm's paid requests before anyone funds it.
Focus: private-key handling (env only, never logged or persisted, no leak through errors), EIP-712 Permit2 and QuoteApproval signing (domains, types, paymentHash over key-sorted JSON), nonce and deadline handling, spending caps and dry-run defaults, refusal of mismatched asset or payTo (address poisoning), double payment on retry, and dependency risks. Each finding with location, impact and the exact …
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11 findingsFour agents audited the code as it is at 91407cb, 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.highRetrying an unresolved order creates a second valid spending authorizationsrc/index.js:63
const nonce=BigInt(`0x${randomBytes(32).toString('hex')}`);2.highConcurrent CLI processes bypass the persistent daily spending capsrc/index.js:61
const day=terms.key;let release;const previous=reservationQueue;reservationQueue=new Promise(resolve=>{release=resolve;});await previous;try{let ledger={};try{ledger=JSON.parse(await readFile(this.spendFile,'utf8'));}catch{}const spent=BigInt(ledger[day]||daily.get(day)||0);if(spent+terms.amount>this.maxPerDay)throw new Error('daily IMD spending cap exceeded');ledger[day]=(spent+terms.amount).toString();await mkdir(dirname(this.spendFile),{recursive:true});await writeFile(this.spendFile,JSON.stringify(ledger),{mode:0o600});daily.set(day,spent+terms.amount);}finally{release();}reservationQueue and daily protect only one module instance. Independent CLI processes perform unlocked read/check/write operations on the shared daily-spend.json, so each can reserve against the same prior balance and the last write loses the other reservation. The default 0.5 IMD limit can authorize 0.6 IMD from two 0.3 IMD calls, or N times the cap with N full-cap concurrent calls.
In-place writeFile and catch-all read/JSON error handling also allow truncated state to reset the cap on restart. Use a process-safe transactional reservation, atomic durable replacement, and fail closed on unexpected ledger corruption. dist/index.js is identical.
3.Unchanged nested quotes fail the original-quote comparisonsrc/index.js:49
if(originallyQuoted&&(!eqAddress(originallyQuoted.payTo,qp.payTo)||String(originallyQuoted.amount)!==String(qp.amount)||originallyQuoted.action!==q.action||String(originallyQuoted.expiresAt)!==String(q.expiresAt)))throw new Error('challenge quote differs from the original quote');verifyTerms unwraps challenge.quote.payment but reads payTo and amount directly from the saved quote. A complete quote response or status response containing quote.payment is therefore rejected even when unchanged, preventing the documented quote-to-pay flow. The existing paid-flow test bypasses this comparison by returning only the order ID.
Normalize both payment objects before comparing their asset, payTo and amount, and retain metadata/identity checks. dist/index.js contains the identical defect.
4.Failures before authorization permanently consume the daily spending budgetsrc/index.js:61
const day=terms.key;let release;const previous=reservationQueue;reservationQueue=new Promise(resolve=>{release=resolve;});await previous;try{let ledger={};try{ledger=JSON.parse(await readFile(this.spendFile,'utf8'));}catch{}const spent=BigInt(ledger[day]||daily.get(day)||0);if(spent+terms.amount>this.maxPerDay)throw new Error('daily IMD spending cap exceeded');ledger[day]=(spent+terms.amount).toString();await mkdir(dirname(this.spendFile),{recursive:true});await writeFile(this.spendFile,JSON.stringify(ledger),{mode:0o600});daily.set(day,spent+terms.amount);}finally{release();}pay persists its reservation before validating expiry or obtaining either signature. It never releases it on definite pre-submission failure. One expired 0.5 IMD quote or rejected signer request exhausts the default daily limit even though no payment authorization reached the service.
Validate the complete signing inputs first; track reservation states and release on failures known to occur before exposing an authorization. Keep ambiguous submitted attempts reserved until reconciled. Refunding every HTTP error or debiting only after success would introduce overspending and retry races. dist/index.js is identical.
5.Unsupported networks and payment schemes still receive mainnet Permit2 signaturessrc/index.js:50
if(!same(accepted,qp)||!same(accepted,cp)||!eqAddress(accepted.asset,IMD_TOKEN))throw new Error('challenge payment terms differ from quote or capabilities');verifyTerms checks only asset, payTo and amount, leaving network, scheme and transfer method unchecked. pay always signs chainId 1 for the mainnet Permit2/exact proxy and echoes contradictory accepted fields in the header. An unsupported-chain challenge therefore obtains an unintended mainnet authorization, while a verifier following the advertised chain cannot validate it. Requiring a mainnet wallet is not a reason to sign contradictory remote terms silently.
Require the configured eip155:1 network, exact scheme and permit2 transfer method consistently across the challenge, quote and capabilities before reserving/signing. dist/index.js is identical.
6.Permit2 deadlines exceed the advertised maximum payment timeoutsrc/index.js:62
const expiry=BigInt(terms.q.expiresAt), now=BigInt(Math.floor(Date.now()/1000)), deadline=expiry-5n;if(deadline<=now)throw new Error('quote expires too soon to sign safely');pay derives the deadline solely from quote.expiresAt minus five seconds, ignoring accepted.maxTimeoutSeconds. Quote validity and transfer-authorization lifetime are different bounds. With a 600-second quote and a 60-second payment window, the transmitted permit remains usable for 595 seconds.
The reference Permit2 client bounds deadline by now + maxTimeoutSeconds. An offchain timeout does not revoke the signature. Validate a positive bounded timeout and use min(quote expiry minus margin, now plus allowed timeout); recheck freshness before exposing payment. dist/index.js is identical.
7.Original-quote validation permits a different quote identity and hashsrc/index.js:49
if(originallyQuoted&&(!eqAddress(originallyQuoted.payTo,qp.payTo)||String(originallyQuoted.amount)!==String(qp.amount)||originallyQuoted.action!==q.action||String(originallyQuoted.expiresAt)!==String(q.expiresAt)))throw new Error('challenge quote differs from the original quote');The original-quote guard compares only payTo, amount, action and expiresAt. Even when that guard is reached and passes, it does not bind QuoteApproval to the cached quote ID/hash (or original asset). A substituted challenge with the same visible terms can therefore authorize different work at the same price.
This is separate from the nested-schema rejection: the failing case uses the flat saved shape that this guard currently accepts. Compare immutable quote identity/hash and all signed terms with a normalized saved quote, and bind resource/scope to the selected order/session; fail closed if the required original quote is absent. dist/index.js is identical.
8.Multi-run schedule payments are compared against a single-run capabilities pricesrc/index.js:50
if(!same(accepted,qp)||!same(accepted,cp)||!eqAddress(accepted.asset,IMD_TOKEN))throw new Error('challenge payment terms differ from quote or capabilities');The amount equality against capabilities treats every policy price as the total. schedule.create and schedule.topup are priced per run, so a valid two-run quote cannot pass even with sufficiently high user caps. The capabilities response identifies both actions in its pricedPer map; the Quote schema supplies runs and unitAmount.
Validate the quoted run count against the original request and calculate the expected total with integer arithmetic, while still enforcing caps on the full total. dist/index.js is identical.
9.lowMissing resource produces an invalid payment JSON header after signingsrc/index.js:16
const canon = (v) => v===null?'null':Array.isArray(v)?`[${v.map(canon).join(',')}]`:typeof v==='object'?`{${Object.keys(v).sort().map(k=>`${JSON.stringify(k)}:${canon(v[k])}`).join(',')}}`:JSON.stringify(v);canon emits the literal undefined for an undefined object value. pay embeds challenge.resource without validating its presence, hashes the malformed string, signs QuoteApproval, and submits an unparseable PAYMENT-SIGNATURE. The service cannot accept the request, while the daily reservation remains consumed and a usable Permit2 signature has already been exposed.
Validate the entire challenge before reserving/signing and ensure canonicalization either emits valid JSON or rejects unsupported values; never emit an undefined token. dist/index.js is identical.
10.lowDeep-importable crypto helpers disclose malformed private keys in errorssrc/crypto.js:61
const d=num(privateKey); if(d<=0n||d>=N)throw new Error('invalid private key'); const z=BigInt(hex(digest));Exported signDigest() and addressFromPrivateKey() pass the private-key text directly to BigInt without the LocalPrivateKeySigner validation/normalization. A 64-hex key missing 0x makes BigInt include the full key in its SyntaxError, exposing it to callers that log errors. dist/crypto.js ships with the package and package.json has no exports restriction.
This was reproduced through the distributed helper imports; the documented LocalPrivateKeySigner/CLI path normalizes this input and does not have this leak. Validate and normalize at both helper boundaries and throw static key errors; optionally restrict the package export surface.
11.lowLocalPrivateKeySigner accepts out-of-range scalars that can never signsrc/crypto.js:77
/** @param {string} privateKey */ constructor(privateKey) { if(typeof privateKey!=='string'||! /^(0x)?[0-9a-fA-F]{64}$/.test(privateKey))throw new Error('invalid private key');this.#privateKey=privateKey.startsWith('0x')?privateKey:`0x${privateKey}`;this.address=addressFromPrivateKey(this.#privateKey); }The constructor checks only the key string shape, then derives an address without checking 0 < d < secp256k1 order N. For N+5 it publishes the address of scalar 5 even though signDigest later rejects the stored key. An operator can be given a wallet address to fund by a signer that can never authorize its funds with the configured key.
Validate the scalar range at construction, before exposing address, and use a static validation error. This does not prove funds are irrecoverable: an informed operator can derive the reduced scalar. dist/crypto.js is identical.
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#1299Audit mathClaude14 findings · 1 highThe review is complete.
.imd-findings.jsonholds 14 substantiated findings, each reproduced against a local mock that uses the shapes published in the live API's OpenAPI document. No repository file was modified. There is no Solidity in scope, so no Foundry proofs apply.Headline result. The paid flow cannot work against the live service as written.
verifyTermsreadspayToandamountfrom the top level of the saved quote, but the API nests them underquote.payment, so everypay(execute:true)throws "challenge quote differs from the original quote" before signing. When a server omits the quote object, the same check is silently skipped, so the README's payee cross-check holds in neither case.Findings by severity
- High. Quote cross-check reads the wrong level of the saved quote (always throws on real data, silently skipped otherwise),
src/index.js:49. - Medium. A retried
pay()signs a second Permit2 authorization with a fresh random nonce for the same order and debits the ledger twice. Only the server's 409 handling stands between that and a double pull. - Medium. The daily ledger is debited before signing and submission and never rolled back. With the default 0.5/0.5 caps, one rejected signature or one 503 locks payments for the rest of the UTC day.
- Medium. Amount is compared against the capabilities per-unit price, so
schedule.createandschedule.topupwith more than one run can never be paid. - Low. Cross-process ledger race lets two concurrent CLI runs exceed the daily cap. Chain id hardcoded to 1 with the challenge network never checked. CLI cap variables undocumented, parsed as wei, and a decimal value aborts every command. Fresh
requestKeyper quote defeats the API's idempotent retry. Signed nonce discarded so a pending permit cannot be invalidated. Deep-import ofdist/crypto.jsechoes a 0x-less key in a BigInt error. Constructor accepts a scalar at or above the curve order.canon()emitsundefinedas bare text, so a malformed challenge is signed before the server rejects it. - Info. Dry run skips all term checks. Scalar multiplication is variable-time.
What checked out. The Permit2 types match the witness string embedded in the x402 proxy bytecode on mainnet, the token at the hardcoded address is IMD with 18 decimals, the QuoteApproval domain, types and message mapping match the API's published definition,
paymentHashis SHA-256 over key-sorted compact JSON as specified, the key is held in a private field that neitherutil.inspectnor JSON serialization exposes,dist/is byte-identical tosrc/, and the package has zero dependencies.ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 31 turns · 11m 1s · 386 in · 51.6K out · 1.1M cachedsubmission7f935a189537f257c5e7002d17f3c388b8274d20ffd65b49663e845e1ee56a37device98b4506bef931d13cb913bf855d8360596e9aceab2a590f8f5b165a483e76a95started from91407cb0dc9dae032edcff5ffe00a196a6143d7dbundlenonechanged · 0 filesnothinghighpay() always rejects a genuine challenge: quote cross-check reads payTo/amount from the wrong level of the saved quotesrc/index.js:49
Retrying pay() signs and transmits a second, independently valid Permit2 authorization for the same ordersrc/index.js:63
Daily spend ledger is debited before signing and submission and never rolled back, so one failure locks all payments for the rest of the UTC daysrc/index.js:61
verifyTerms compares the quoted total against the capabilities per-unit price, so schedule.create / schedule.topup with runs > 1 can never be paidsrc/index.js:50
Daily cap can be exceeded by concurrent CLI processes: ledger read-modify-write has no cross-process locksrc/index.js:61
reservationQueue serialises reservations only inside one Node process. The CLI runs one process per command, so two concurrent 'imd pay --execute' invocations both read daily-spend.json before either writes it, both see spent = 0, both pass the cap and both sign. There is no O_EXCL lock file, rename-based atomic write, or re-read after write.
The in-memory daily Map does not help across processes.
Expected: at most maxPerDay authorized per UTC day regardless of concurrency.
Fix: take an exclusive lock (e.g. open a lock file with the 'wx' flag and retry, or use proper-lockfile style mkdir locking) around read, check and write; write via temp file + rename.
Two child processes each run new ImdClient({baseUrl, signer}) with default caps (0.5/0.5) and pay(orderId, undefined, {execute:true}) for an order quoted at 0.5 IMD; a proxy holds both /requests/capabilities responses until both have asked, so the ledger read happens simultaneously.
Expected: one 'PAID', one 'daily IMD spending cap exceeded'.
Actual: both print PAID payment_pending; the mock received 2 signed payloads, 1.0 IMD authorized against a 0.5 IMD daily cap.
Chain id is hardcoded to 1 in both EIP-712 domains while the challenge network and quote.payment.network are never checkedsrc/index.js:65
Mock challenge with accepts[0].network 'eip155:8453' and quote.payment.network 'eip155:8453', everything else unchanged. pay(order, signer, {execute:true}).
Expected: throw before signing.
Actual: signTypedData is called twice with domains {name:'Permit2',chainId:1,...} and {name:'IdentityMD Paid Action',version:'1',chainId:1}; the submit goes out and returns payment_pending.
CLI spending-cap environment variables are undocumented, parsed as raw wei, and a decimal value aborts every commandsrc/cli.js:13
The CLI constructs ImdClient for every command with maxPerRequest/maxPerDay taken from IMD_MAX_PER_REQUEST / IMD_MAX_PER_DAY. These variables appear nowhere in the README or in the help text, and the README talks about caps in IMD ('0.5 IMD').
BigInt() parsing means: '0.1' or '1e18' throws SyntaxError 'Cannot convert 0.1 to a BigInt' even for 'imd capabilities'; '1' yields a 1 wei cap so every payment is refused with 'per-request IMD spending cap exceeded'; an empty string is not nullish, bypasses the ?? default and yields 0n.
Expected: documented variables, a decimal-IMD parser (or an explicit 'wei' suffix) and a clear error naming the variable. All outcomes are fail-closed; the risk is usability and a user raising the value by mistake because the unit is unclear.
IMD_MAX_PER_REQUEST=0.1 node src/cli.js capabilities -> prints 'Cannot convert 0.1 to a BigInt', exit 1, no request made. new ImdClient({maxPerRequest:''}).maxPerRequest === 0n. new ImdClient({maxPerRequest:'1'}).maxPerRequest === 1n (one wei).
quote() generates a fresh requestKey on every call, so a retried quote creates a duplicate order instead of reusing the saved onesrc/index.js:36
The API documents requestKey as an idempotency key: 'Reuse the requestKey when retrying the same input' and returns 200 for a retry versus 201 for a new order, with 409 on conflict. quote() always sends randomUUID() and offers no way to pass one in, so a retry after a timeout or a 503 ('saved state is retained') creates a second priced order.
Orders are free until paid, but the caller then holds two orders for one intent and pay() can be run on both; with the retry finding this doubles exposure.
Fix: accept an optional requestKey in quote(action, input, {requestKey}) and surface it in the CLI, defaulting to a UUID derived from sha256(canon({action,input})) or a caller-supplied value.
Call client.quote('job.open', {objective:'x'}) twice against a mock that records the requestKey of each POST /requests/quote.
Expected (per API guidance): identical requestKey on the retry.
Actual: two different UUIDs, two orders created (mock log quotes === 2), no option to reuse the first.
The signed Permit2 nonce and signature are discarded, so a pending authorization cannot be invalidated by the payersrc/index.js:68
pay() returns only response.body. The random nonce, the deadline and both signatures exist only inside the call. If the order never settles (service outage, order stuck in payment_pending, or the retry case) the payer has a live Permit2 authorization for 0.5 IMD until quote expiresAt and no way to call Permit2.invalidateUnorderedNonces(wordPos, mask) because the nonce is unknown; the CLI prints nothing about it either.
Expected: return (or log with --json) {nonce, deadline, permitSignature, quoteSignature, paymentHash} alongside the server response, and document how to invalidate. This is a usability/safety gap rather than a loss path, since the amount and payee are bounded by the signed witness.
Run pay(order, signer, {execute:true}) against the mock; inspect the resolved value: it is exactly the server body {status:'payment_pending'} and contains no nonce, deadline or signature; the SDK keeps no record either (client.quotes.get(id) is the original quote response).
Deep-importable crypto helpers echo the private key text inside BigInt conversion errorssrc/crypto.js:61
signDigest() and addressFromPrivateKey() call num(privateKey) = BigInt(privateKey) without the LocalPrivateKeySigner regex guard.
For a 64-hex key passed without the 0x prefix (a common mistake) BigInt throws SyntaxError whose message contains the full key text, e.g. 'Cannot convert 59c6995e...f37b to a BigInt'; the CLI and most loggers print error.message. package.json declares no "exports" map, so dist/crypto.js is importable from the installed package (import {signDigest} from 'imd-sdk/dist/crypto.js'), which the README's 'the key is never logged' claim does not cover.
Expected: validate the key with the same regex (or catch and rethrow a static 'invalid private key') in signDigest/addressFromPrivateKey, and add an "exports" field exposing only index.js.
import {signDigest} from 'imd-sdk/dist/crypto.js'; signDigest('59c6995e998f97a5a0044976f0945389dc9e86dae88c7a8412c8b4f11f99f37b', new Uint8Array(32)).
Expected: Error('invalid private key').
Actual: SyntaxError: Cannot convert 59c6995e998f97a5a0044976f0945389dc9e86dae88c7a8412c8b4f11f99f37b to a BigInt (full key in the message).
Same for addressFromPrivateKey with the same input.
LocalPrivateKeySigner accepts a scalar >= secp256k1 n and reports the address of (key mod n), then fails at signing timesrc/crypto.js:77
The constructor only checks the 64-hex shape. For a value d >= N, addressFromPrivateKey computes mul(d) = (d mod N)*G and reports that address as signer.address, while signDigest later throws 'invalid private key'. The result is a client that advertises a wallet address it cannot sign for; pay() reaches the ledger reservation (debiting the day's budget, see the ledger finding) before the signer throws.
Expected: reject d == 0 or d >= N in the constructor with the same static error.
new LocalPrivateKeySigner('0x' + (N + 5n).toString(16)) where N = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141.
Expected: throws 'invalid private key'.
Actual: constructs; .address === addressFromPrivateKey('0x5') === 0xe1ab8145f7e55dc933d51a18c793f901a3a0b276; signTypedData(...) then rejects with 'invalid private key'.
canon() emits invalid JSON for undefined values, producing an unparseable PAYMENT-SIGNATURE after both signatures were already madesrc/index.js:16
canon() falls through to JSON.stringify for scalars, which returns the value undefined (not a string) for undefined; template interpolation then writes the bare token undefined into the output. payment.resource is taken from the challenge without validation, so a challenge lacking resource (or an accepts[0] containing an undefined-valued key when built programmatically) yields a header like {"accepted":...,"resource":undefined,...}.
The sequence signs the Permit2, computes paymentHash over the malformed text, signs the QuoteApproval, debits the ledger and only then is rejected by the server (invalid_payment_shape).
Expected: canon() throws on undefined/bigint/function values, and pay() validates the challenge fields it embeds (resource object, resourceUrl string, requesterScopeHash 64-hex) before signing.
Mock challenge identical to the documented one but without the resource property. pay(order, signer, {execute:true}): Expected: refuse before signing. Actual: signer called twice, ledger debited, submit sent with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE decoding to text containing '"resource":undefined', which JSON.parse rejects (SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'u').
Dry-run pay() fetches the challenge but skips verifyTerms, so a dry run never exercises the checks that execute:true will applysrc/index.js:58
The default (non-execute) path returns {dryRun:true} right after the 402, before verifyTerms, the caps, the deadline check and the ledger. A user who follows the README ('imd pay ORDER_ID' then '--execute') gets no preview of the terms, the amount against the caps, or the cross-check failures above; everything surfaces only once a key is in the environment.
Expected: run verifyTerms and the cap/deadline checks in dry-run mode and return the validated terms (amount, payTo, asset, expiresAt, deadline) so the user can inspect them before supplying IMD_PRIVATE_KEY.
Mock challenge with accepts[0].payTo 0x4e0fa57bde726079356537e2f34d671e9f41ad00 while capabilities says ...adbc. pay(order) without execute: returns {dryRun:true, order:{id}, message:'Payment not signed...'} with no error; pay(order, signer, {execute:true}) throws 'challenge payment terms differ from quote or capabilities'.
Scalar multiplication and modular inverse are variable-time; local signing leaks timing of the private keysrc/crypto.js:54
mul() is a plain double-and-add loop that performs an extra point addition for every set bit of the scalar, and inv() is a variable-time extended Euclid; the RFC 6979 nonce k and the private key d both flow through them.
For a CLI running locally this is only exploitable by a co-resident attacker measuring the process, so it is informational, but it should be stated in the README's threat model and users with real funds steered to the viem/hardware signer path, or the library should switch to a constant-time ladder.
Time signDigest(KEY, digest) for two keys of Hamming weight 1 and 200: the number of add() calls equals the popcount of the nonce, so the runtime differs measurably (observable with performance.now() over repeated calls).
- High. Quote cross-check reads the wrong level of the saved quote (always throws on real data, silently skipped otherwise),
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#1602Audit economicsCodex5 findings · 4 mediumRecorded 5 findings—4 medium, 1 low—in .imd-findings.json.
They cover quote rejection, budget exhaustion, concurrent cap bypass, duplicate retry authorizations, and signing-domain mismatch.
Existing tests passed with in-memory spending storage. Targeted reproductions confirmed the client defects; live settlement was not tested. Source files remain unchanged.
ran oncodex · gpt-6-astra · 6 turns · 11m 7s · 89.2K in · 14K out · 1.2M cachedsubmission7532d7bc5cc1393fd17ae96c2bd4e1a35dd7b01a7d149dc086178a052c83e5e8device720122d0ca9f60ca0fedc6534d5c967c26c3800269e1a90e4d9279c6360180d4started from91407cb0dc9dae032edcff5ffe00a196a6143d7dbundlenonechanged · 0 filesnothingNormal nested quotes cannot pass the original-payment comparisonsrc/index.js:49
verifyTerms() compares originallyQuoted.payTo and originallyQuoted.amount with qp, although the payment fields in the supported challenge/quote shape live under quote.payment. A quote response containing the full quote, or a status response containing order.quote, therefore fails even when all terms are identical. The documented quote -> pay workflow cannot execute, including the CLI path that reloads a full quote from status.
The existing successful mock avoids this branch by returning only an order id. Normalize the original quote with paymentOf(originallyQuoted), validate its asset as well as amount/payTo, and compare metadata separately. The same code is shipped in dist/index.js.
Rejected pre-signing attempts permanently consume the daily spending budgetsrc/index.js:61
pay() writes the full amount to the persistent daily ledger before checking quote expiry or obtaining either signature, and never releases the reservation on a definite pre-submission failure. A stale quote or a signer rejecting the request consumes the same budget as a submitted payment. At the default limits a single 0.5 IMD expired quote blocks every subsequent payment for the UTC day, even across process restarts, although nothing was signed or paid.
Validate deadlines and the complete payload before reserving, and use explicit reservation states that release on failures known to occur before submission. Preserve reservations for ambiguous network/settlement outcomes. The same code is shipped in dist/index.js.
Concurrent CLI processes bypass the persistent daily spending capsrc/index.js:61
reservationQueue only serializes calls within one module instance. Independent CLI/Node processes read, check and overwrite the same daily-spend.json without any inter-process lock or atomic reservation. Both can authorize payments against the same old balance, and the last write erases the other reservation.
Two 0.3 IMD requests authorize 0.6 IMD under the default 0.5 IMD daily cap while recording only 0.3 IMD; more concurrent processes increase the discrepancy. A crash during the non-atomic write can also leave invalid JSON that the empty catch treats as no historical spending in a fresh process. Protect read/check/update with an inter-process lock or transactional store, replace the file atomically, and fail closed on unexpected read/parse errors.
The same code is shipped in dist/index.js.
Retrying an unresolved payment creates a second independent spend authorizationsrc/index.js:63
Non-mainnet payment challenges still produce mainnet signaturessrc/index.js:50
verifyTerms() only compares asset, payTo and amount. It never validates accepted.network against the hardcoded chainId:1 in both signing domains. A challenge advertising another chain is accepted and sent back with mainnet Permit2 and QuoteApproval signatures.
A verifier following the advertised chain cannot validate these signatures; the client has also reserved spending and emitted an unintended mainnet authorization. Because this client deliberately supports Ethereum mainnet, reject any network other than eip155:1 (and unsupported payment scheme/transfer method) before reserving or signing, rather than deriving an unrestricted domain from untrusted input. The same code is shipped in dist/index.js.
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#270Audit permissionsCodex6 findings · 2 highSaved six substantiated findings—2 high, 4 medium—to .imd-findings.json.
The high findings cover duplicate payment authorizations on retry and concurrent-process daily-cap bypass.
Both existing tests passed with filesystem mocks. Findings include concrete reproductions and verified source locations. Client files remain unchanged; no live transactions were sent.
ran oncodex · gpt-6-astra · 6 turns · 11m 40s · 125.1K in · 14.8K out · 1.5M cachedsubmission0f062f7ce1b364fbcd6cc5cbf2a0dc3b684ffb5412637f87018e9f973d252892device02ae6543274731ab9267e3541a2725ba68887d0790ccdad189b0d33bfc1a01b9started from91407cb0dc9dae032edcff5ffe00a196a6143d7dbundlenonechanged · 0 filesnothinghighRetrying one order signs a second independently spendable paymentsrc/index.js:63
highConcurrent CLI processes bypass the persisted daily spending capsrc/index.js:61
reservationQueue and daily are module-local, but all CLI processes share daily-spend.json. The file read/check/write is not protected by a cross-process lock or an atomic transaction. Two pay processes can both read the same old balance, both pass the cap, and overwrite one another's reservation.
Thus the guard does not bound authorized daily spending in ordinary concurrent CLI/worker use. writeFile also truncates the ledger in place and all read/JSON errors are treated as an empty ledger, so crashes or overlapping reads can erase the effective balance. Use an inter-process transactional reservation (including atomic durable persistence); fail closed on corrupt state rather than treating it as zero.
Unchanged quotes with nested payment terms are rejected before signingsrc/index.js:49
verifyTerms reads the challenge through paymentOf(q), but reads originallyQuoted.payTo and originallyQuoted.amount directly. The quote shape consumed by pay at line 67 and used in test/paid-flow.test.mjs:24 stores these fields under quote.payment. Consequently a complete, unchanged original quote fails the original-quote guard, while a response omitting the original quote bypasses it.
This prevents legitimate library and CLI payments whenever quote() or status() includes the complete nested quote. Normalize both sides through paymentOf before comparing, and preserve the original quote identity and hash for validation.
Expired quotes consume the daily budget without producing any signaturesrc/index.js:61
The persistent ledger is incremented before expiry validation and before either signer call, and no failure path releases a reservation known to have produced no payment. An expired/near-expiry challenge at the default request amount exhausts the full daily budget even though zero signatures and zero paid submissions exist. A user cannot pay a later valid quote that day; the false spend also survives a process restart.
Validate complete signing inputs and deadlines before reserving, and release reservations for failures conclusively occurring before any authorization is exposed. Preserve reservations for ambiguous submission failures.
Challenges for other networks still receive mainnet spending signaturessrc/index.js:50
verifyTerms validates only asset/payTo/amount. It does not require accepted.network to be eip155:1, even though both EIP-712 domains are unconditionally chainId:1 at lines 65 and 67. pay() then echoes the unsupported network in accepted while emitting a real mainnet Permit2 authorization. A misrouted or poisoned non-mainnet challenge therefore consumes the budget and receives a signature authorizing mainnet funds; that signature cannot validate against the advertised network.
Require the configured/supported network, exact scheme and Permit2 transfer method before reserving or signing, and derive the domains and payload from the same validated configuration.
Permit validity ignores the advertised maximum payment timeoutsrc/index.js:62
The Permit2 deadline is derived solely from quote.expiresAt minus five seconds; accepted.maxTimeoutSeconds is never applied. A quote lifetime longer than the payment timeout produces a transfer authorization redeemable well after the advertised payment window. With witness.validAfter=0, nothing else in the permit restricts this window.
Delayed or retained authorizations remain usable until the quote expiry even if the caller treated the payment as timed out. Bound the deadline by both quote expiry and a validated local/advertised maximum authorization duration. The official x402 client implementation derives the Permit2 deadline from now + maxTimeoutSeconds.
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Highest risks: concurrent processes bypass the daily cap, and retries create independently spendable duplicate payments.
Validated with local reproductions, the existing tests, and independent Foundry signature checks. No source files changed or live payments sent.
ran oncodex · gpt-6-astra · 5 turns · 14m 5s · 139.3K in · 19.1K out · 1.7M cachedsubmission0b46bf7c37d30d9e0e1dd080295ce1a5da996823aabce13cde0f03743777b61fdevicebb0a3bf63233e5e5722f6eae6cd08dc581298f894dd83aa00d8a87a846a28c34started from91407cb0dc9dae032edcff5ffe00a196a6143d7dbundlenonechanged · 0 filesnothinghighConcurrent CLI processes bypass the persistent daily spending capsrc/index.js:61
reservationQueue serializes reservations only inside one loaded JavaScript module. Separate CLI invocations have independent queues and daily maps, but update the same daily-spend.json with an unlocked read/modify/write. Two processes can both read zero, each authorize the entire daily budget, and overwrite the ledger with the same single-payment total.
This violates the spending limit even with honest responses and different orders. N concurrent processes can authorize N times the configured cap, subject to wallet balance and Permit2 allowance. Use a process-safe lock or transactional store around the whole reservation and atomic, durable ledger writes; a JavaScript Promise alone cannot protect the CLI.
The shipped dist/index.js has the same issue.
highRetrying an ambiguous submission signs a second independently spendable paymentsrc/index.js:63
Unchanged quotes with nested payment terms are rejected before paymentsrc/index.js:49
verifyTerms reads the challenge payment through paymentOf(q), but compares the saved quote using originallyQuoted.payTo and originallyQuoted.amount directly. When quote() or status() returns a quote with the same {payment:{asset,amount,payTo}} structure that the payment flow itself requires at line 67, the original payTo and amount appear undefined and an identical challenge is rejected. The documented quote -> pay flow cannot execute for this response shape.
Normalize the original quote payment with paymentOf(originallyQuoted) before comparing it, and retain identity/expiry checks. The same implementation is shipped in dist/index.js.
An expired quote consumes the entire daily cap without signing or payingsrc/index.js:61
pay permanently increments both the on-disk ledger and the in-memory daily total before checking quote expiry or invoking either signer. Failures before a payable request exists never release this reservation. An ordinary expiry race or rejected signer request therefore blocks further payments for the UTC day even though nothing was paid.
With the defaults a single failed 0.5 IMD attempt exhausts the whole allowance. Validate the complete challenge and deadline before reserving, and release reservations when signing fails before submission; retain and reconcile reservations for ambiguous network outcomes rather than blindly refunding them. The same implementation is shipped in dist/index.js.
A non-mainnet challenge still produces spendable Ethereum-mainnet signaturessrc/index.js:50
verifyTerms checks only asset/payTo/amount and never verifies accepted.network, scheme, or extra.assetTransferMethod. pay then unconditionally signs chainId 1 and the exact Permit2 proxy while copying the contradictory acceptance fields into the transmitted payment.
For a Sepolia challenge this discloses an actual mainnet transfer authorization, rather than refusing an unsupported network; a conforming Sepolia facilitator cannot use it, while anyone possessing it can submit it to the mainnet exact proxy if the wallet has balance and allowance. Similarly, an upto or eip3009 challenge receives an incompatible exact Permit2 signature.
Enforce network=eip155:1, scheme=exact, and assetTransferMethod=permit2 before reserving or invoking a signer; reject contradictory metadata. This is also present in dist/index.js.
Quote identity can change while the original-quote safety check passessrc/index.js:49
The original-quote comparison covers only payTo, amount, action, and expiresAt; it omits quote ID, quoteHash and asset. Therefore a stored flat quote (the shape this guard expects) does not bind the later QuoteApproval to the quoted request. A stale or substituted challenge with the same price, payee, action and expiry passes, and line 67 signs the replacement quote ID/hash.
This can authorize a different job or input at the same price; signing quoteHash is ineffective for consent if that hash is not checked against the original. Normalize original/challenge schemas and compare the immutable identity and all signed economic fields before signing. Also check that the approved resource and requester scope belong to the selected order/session.
The same issue exists in dist/index.js.
Permit2 authorizations outlive the advertised payment timeoutsrc/index.js:62
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#1548Audit judgeCodex11 findings · 2 highafterAudit math, Audit permissions, Audit economics, Audit flowSaved 11 reproduced, deduplicated findings to .imd-findings.json: 2 high, 6 medium, 3 low.
Both existing tests passed; captured signatures matched Foundry
cast. Application files are unchanged. Reproductions were local; no live payments occurred.ran oncodex · gpt-6-astra · 6 turns · 12m 18s · 243.7K in · 16.3K out · 1.6M cachedsubmission6b68bfdb7192dd540e4e3de42b9a3066e3108a376ce05349382673132196335edevice35c52a5b502e847cda633d436a25cd57d809a4ea7935560acc2b18eccfd592acstarted from91407cb0dc9dae032edcff5ffe00a196a6143d7dbundlenonechanged · 0 filesnothinghighRetrying an unresolved order creates a second valid spending authorizationsrc/index.js:63
highConcurrent CLI processes bypass the persistent daily spending capsrc/index.js:61
reservationQueue and daily protect only one module instance. Independent CLI processes perform unlocked read/check/write operations on the shared daily-spend.json, so each can reserve against the same prior balance and the last write loses the other reservation. The default 0.5 IMD limit can authorize 0.6 IMD from two 0.3 IMD calls, or N times the cap with N full-cap concurrent calls.
In-place writeFile and catch-all read/JSON error handling also allow truncated state to reset the cap on restart. Use a process-safe transactional reservation, atomic durable replacement, and fail closed on unexpected ledger corruption. dist/index.js is identical.
Unchanged nested quotes fail the original-quote comparisonsrc/index.js:49
verifyTerms unwraps challenge.quote.payment but reads payTo and amount directly from the saved quote. A complete quote response or status response containing quote.payment is therefore rejected even when unchanged, preventing the documented quote-to-pay flow. The existing paid-flow test bypasses this comparison by returning only the order ID.
Normalize both payment objects before comparing their asset, payTo and amount, and retain metadata/identity checks. dist/index.js contains the identical defect.
Failures before authorization permanently consume the daily spending budgetsrc/index.js:61
pay persists its reservation before validating expiry or obtaining either signature. It never releases it on definite pre-submission failure. One expired 0.5 IMD quote or rejected signer request exhausts the default daily limit even though no payment authorization reached the service.
Validate the complete signing inputs first; track reservation states and release on failures known to occur before exposing an authorization. Keep ambiguous submitted attempts reserved until reconciled. Refunding every HTTP error or debiting only after success would introduce overspending and retry races. dist/index.js is identical.
Unsupported networks and payment schemes still receive mainnet Permit2 signaturessrc/index.js:50
verifyTerms checks only asset, payTo and amount, leaving network, scheme and transfer method unchecked. pay always signs chainId 1 for the mainnet Permit2/exact proxy and echoes contradictory accepted fields in the header. An unsupported-chain challenge therefore obtains an unintended mainnet authorization, while a verifier following the advertised chain cannot validate it. Requiring a mainnet wallet is not a reason to sign contradictory remote terms silently.
Require the configured eip155:1 network, exact scheme and permit2 transfer method consistently across the challenge, quote and capabilities before reserving/signing. dist/index.js is identical.
Permit2 deadlines exceed the advertised maximum payment timeoutsrc/index.js:62
pay derives the deadline solely from quote.expiresAt minus five seconds, ignoring accepted.maxTimeoutSeconds. Quote validity and transfer-authorization lifetime are different bounds. With a 600-second quote and a 60-second payment window, the transmitted permit remains usable for 595 seconds.
The reference Permit2 client bounds deadline by now + maxTimeoutSeconds. An offchain timeout does not revoke the signature. Validate a positive bounded timeout and use min(quote expiry minus margin, now plus allowed timeout); recheck freshness before exposing payment. dist/index.js is identical.
Original-quote validation permits a different quote identity and hashsrc/index.js:49
The original-quote guard compares only payTo, amount, action and expiresAt. Even when that guard is reached and passes, it does not bind QuoteApproval to the cached quote ID/hash (or original asset). A substituted challenge with the same visible terms can therefore authorize different work at the same price.
This is separate from the nested-schema rejection: the failing case uses the flat saved shape that this guard currently accepts. Compare immutable quote identity/hash and all signed terms with a normalized saved quote, and bind resource/scope to the selected order/session; fail closed if the required original quote is absent. dist/index.js is identical.
Multi-run schedule payments are compared against a single-run capabilities pricesrc/index.js:50
The amount equality against capabilities treats every policy price as the total. schedule.create and schedule.topup are priced per run, so a valid two-run quote cannot pass even with sufficiently high user caps. The capabilities response identifies both actions in its pricedPer map; the Quote schema supplies runs and unitAmount.
Validate the quoted run count against the original request and calculate the expected total with integer arithmetic, while still enforcing caps on the full total. dist/index.js is identical.
Missing resource produces an invalid payment JSON header after signingsrc/index.js:16
canon emits the literal undefined for an undefined object value. pay embeds challenge.resource without validating its presence, hashes the malformed string, signs QuoteApproval, and submits an unparseable PAYMENT-SIGNATURE. The service cannot accept the request, while the daily reservation remains consumed and a usable Permit2 signature has already been exposed.
Validate the entire challenge before reserving/signing and ensure canonicalization either emits valid JSON or rejects unsupported values; never emit an undefined token. dist/index.js is identical.
Deep-importable crypto helpers disclose malformed private keys in errorssrc/crypto.js:61
Exported signDigest() and addressFromPrivateKey() pass the private-key text directly to BigInt without the LocalPrivateKeySigner validation/normalization. A 64-hex key missing 0x makes BigInt include the full key in its SyntaxError, exposing it to callers that log errors. dist/crypto.js ships with the package and package.json has no exports restriction.
This was reproduced through the distributed helper imports; the documented LocalPrivateKeySigner/CLI path normalizes this input and does not have this leak. Validate and normalize at both helper boundaries and throw static key errors; optionally restrict the package export surface.
LocalPrivateKeySigner accepts out-of-range scalars that can never signsrc/crypto.js:77
The constructor checks only the key string shape, then derives an address without checking 0 < d < secp256k1 order N. For N+5 it publishes the address of scalar 5 even though signDigest later rejects the stored key. An operator can be given a wallet address to fund by a signer that can never authorize its funds with the configured key.
Validate the scalar range at construction, before exposing address, and use a static validation error. This does not prove funds are irrecoverable: an informed operator can derive the reduced scalar. dist/crypto.js is identical.
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