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Audit the price path: src/SwarmFeed.sol, src/PriceFeed.sol, src/NhiFeed.sol, src/SpotFeed.sol, src/SwarmRelay.sol, src/OracleAsker.sol, src/UsdPriceFeed.sol, src/SharePriceFeed.sol, src/SwarmWorkOracle.sol and src/WorkOracleFactory.sol, and the constants they read, at the pinned commit, for a mainnet launch. Read whatever else in src/ these contracts depend on, but report on this scope.

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1.highSwarmFeed never compares the signed window with the chain head: an answer signed now over a window that closed hours or days ago is accepted and dated nowsrc/SwarmFeed.sol:240

        if (a.toBlock <= lastToBlock) revert WindowNotAdvancing(a.toBlock, lastToBlock);

Function: SwarmFeed._requireQuestion, reached from submitAttestation and inherited by PriceFeed, SpotFeed, NhiFeed and SwarmWorkOracle. Merges four specialist reports of this defect (three high, one low) and the separate low report about windows beyond the head.

The window is checked for span (line 239) and for toBlock > lastToBlock (line 240), and for nothing else. No line relates fromBlock/toBlock to block.number, to issuedAt or to the signed blockHash. Freshness is taken from issuedAt (line 177) and _accept(a.figure, a.issuedAt) dates the value at signing time. So every window that closed after the last accepted one is acceptable, however long ago it closed, and its figure reads as fresh for maxAge. The comment at lines 232-233 ('toBlock must advance, so a freshly signed attestation cannot answer over an ANCIENT window in which the price was whatever the buyer needed it to be'), README.md:99-100, DeploymentConfig.sol:36 ('never mispriced') and docs/PARAMETERS-2026-10-05.md ('Positions are never priced off a stale figure') all claim the opposite. The claim holds only for windows at or before lastToBlock.

Reachable with the constants as committed, for three reasons.

Price and spot feeds are deliberately not kept alive (DeploymentConfig.sol:32-38, PRICE_MAX_AGE = SPOT_MAX_AGE = 1 hour), so lastToBlock is routinely hours or days behind the head, and once the value is older than maxAge the deviation bound is lifted (line 299). ATTESTATION_CHAIN_ID is 1, so on mainnet the feed runs on the chain the window is about and could check it.
The attester signs windows the buyer pins. The request schema takes window:{fromBlock,toBlock} (oracle/nhi-composite-quote.json, oracle/vwap-oracle-quote.json), and the repository's own threat model assumes this buyer (test/QuestionBinding.t.sol:94-96). I also read the service's public request list on 2026-10-05 (GET api.imd.fun/oracle/requests, the endpoint oracle/question-prefix.mjs --verify uses; this is outside the pinned tree): request 26778b1f-ceda-47b0-a7ac-78d5f8adebfd, chainId 1, was created at 06:45:21Z with window 26122900..26122901. Mainnet block 26122901 has timestamp 1791163955 (01:32:35Z) and the attestation's issuedAt is 1791182787, so the attester signed 5 h 14 min, about 1,569 blocks, after the window closed. In the same list, 96 chain-read requests created within two minutes cover 16 different back-to-back windows spanning about 188,000 blocks of another chain. The service does sign old windows, dated now.
The consumer domain is named by the requester and SwarmRelay admits everyone, so the buyer needs no privilege: copy the pinned question, replace window:{hours:N} with explicit blocks, name the feed as consumer.

Call sequence (unprivileged, about 1 IMD): (a) the primary and spot feeds last accepted windows closing near block B0, then nobody bought an update for some hours or days (normal); (b) the attacker buys the pinned primary question over [W, W+300..1200] and the pinned spot question with toBlock in the same period, B0 < toBlock, choosing the period since B0 whose price suits them. Windows may overlap and need only advance by one block, so one favourable hour supplies as many attestations as wanted; (c) SwarmRelay.relayMany([primary, spot], ...) and the vault action in one transaction. Both feeds read fresh, they agree within SKEW_BPS because both windows come from the same period, and the vault acts on that period's price.

What the vault then does, reproduced through ParameterizedVault and SwarmRelay with question-bound leaves (ETH at $2,500, IMD at $10 now):

cash at a past low. With a three-day-old $9 window as the price, burning 1,000 imdUSD (5% of supply, fee 300 bps) paid 107.78 IMD, worth $1,077.78 at the live price, taken from a borrower at 180% who had $1,000 of debt cancelled. Any upward drift since the last update larger than the redemption fee is taken this way, from the Treasury's reserve first and then from any position inside mat + gap at the stal

test/scratch/WindowRecency.t.sol (attached), a leaf with PriceFeed's policy (span 300..1200, maxAge 1 hour, 5000 bps) on chain 1, block 26,100,000.

An honest attestation over [26,099,380, 26,099,980] is accepted.

Warp 3 days, roll 21,600 blocks: isStale() is true.

Submit a validly signed attestation with issuedAt = now, fromBlock 26,099,981, toBlock 26,100,581 (closed 21,019 blocks, about 70 hours, before the head), figure half the honest price, questionHash = expectedQuestionHash(26099981, 26100581).

Expected: revert.

Actual: accepted; latestValue() is the three-day-old figure dated now and isStale() is false for the next hour.

Second test: fromBlock head + 999,400, toBlock head + 1,000,000.

Expected: revert.

Actual: accepted, lastToBlock == 27,100,000.

Both fail on this commit ('a window that closed three days before the head was accepted', 'a window that has not happened yet was accepted'); the control (signed over a window that closed 20 blocks ago, relayed 10 minutes later) passes.

All three pass with the fix above, with the maxSpan variant and with the blockhash variant, each tried on a patched copy.

The three specialist proofs for this finding were also run and fail the same way.

Vault figures above come from a second scratch test (StaleWindowVault.t.sol, not attached) driving ParameterizedVault.cash and draw after SwarmRelay.relayMany.

proof · a Foundry test that fails on this code and passes once it is fixed

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.26;

import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {SwarmFeed} from "src/SwarmFeed.sol";

/// @dev A question-bound leaf with PriceFeed's policy (span 300..1200 blocks, one-hour lifetime, the
/// deploy scripts' 5000 bps), on the chain its question is about (chain 1), which is the mainnet
/// launch: the data chain and the consumer chain are the same, so `block.number` is comparable to
/// the signed window. The attester is a test key because the shipped leaves pin the oracle service's
/// key; the check under test, `SwarmFeed._requireQuestion`, is the code all four leaves inherit.
contract WindowBoundLeaf is SwarmFeed {
    constructor(address attester_) SwarmFeed(attester_, address(0), 1, 3, 1 hours, 5000) {}

    function questionPolicy() internal pure override returns (bytes memory, uint64, uint64) {
        return ('{"answerType":"uint256","chainId":1,"question":"q","v":1,"window":{"fromBlock":', 300, 1200);
    }
}

/// @notice `_requireQuestion` compares the signed window with the last ACCEPTED window only, never
/// with the block the feed is running in. An attestation signed now is therefore accepted over any
/// window that closed after the last update, however long ago, and dated now.
///
/// The first two tests FAIL on the code as committed and pass once the window is bound to the chain
/// head. The third passes before and after: an honest attestation, relayed ten minutes after it was
/// signed over a window that had just closed, must stay acceptable.
contract WindowRecencyTest is Test {
    uint256 private constant ATTESTER_KEY = 0xA11CE;
    uint256 private constant HONEST_PRICE = 3_000_000_000_000_000; // 0.003 ETH per IMD

    WindowBoundLeaf private feed;

    function setUp() public {
        vm.chainId(1);
        vm.warp(1_791_000_000);
        vm.roll(26_100_000);
        feed = new WindowBoundLeaf(vm.addr(ATTESTER_KEY));

        // An honest update: a two-hour window that closed 20 blocks before the head, signed now.
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(26_099_380, 26_099_980, HONEST_PRICE);
        feed.submitAttestation(a, _sign(a));
        assertEq(feed.lastToBlock(), 26_099_980);
    }

    /// @dev Three days pass with no update, which is the design for a price feed (bought on demand,
    /// never on a clock). A buyer then has the pinned question answered over the window that opened
    /// right after the last accepted one, i.e. one that closed three days ago, and relays it.
    function test_aWindowThatClosedThreeDaysBeforeTheHeadIsRefused() public {
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 3 days);
        vm.roll(block.number + 21_600);
        assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "the feed lapsed, so the deviation bound no longer applies");

        // Half the honest price: what the market read three days ago, in this example.
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory old_ = _attestation(26_099_981, 26_100_581, HONEST_PRICE / 2);
        bytes memory sig = _sign(old_);
        assertEq(block.number - old_.toBlock, 21_019, "the window closed 21,019 blocks (about 70 hours) ago");

        bool accepted;
        try feed.submitAttestation(old_, sig) {
            accepted = true;
        } catch {}

        assertFalse(accepted, "a window that closed three days before the head was accepted");
        (uint256 value,) = feed.latestValue();
        assertEq(value, HONEST_PRICE, "a three-day-old reading became the feed's value");
        assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "a three-day-old reading reads as fresh for the next hour");
    }

    /// @dev The other direction of the same missing comparison. `lastToBlock` only moves forward and
    /// the feed has no admin, so one accepted window beyond the head refuses every honest attestation
    /// until the chain reaches that block.
    function test_aWindowBeyondTheHeadIsRefused() public {
        uint64 future = uint64(block.number) + 1_000_000;
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory ahead = _attestation(future - 600, future, HONEST_PRICE);
        bytes memory sig = _sign(ahead);

        bool accepted;
        try feed.submitAttestation(ahead, sig) {
            accepted = true;
        } catch {}

        assertFalse(accepted, "a window that has not happened yet was accepted");
        assertEq(feed.lastToBlock(), 26_099_980, "lastToBlock moved past the head and cannot come back");
    }

    /// @dev Control. Signed now over a window that closed 20 blocks ago, relayed 10 minutes later.
    function test_control_anHonestAttestationRelayedTenMinutesLateIsAccepted() public {
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 2 hours);
        vm.roll(block.number + 600);

        uint64 to = uint64(block.number) - 20;
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(to - 600, to, HONEST_PRICE * 101 / 100);
        bytes memory sig = _sign(a);

        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 10 minutes);
        vm.roll(block.number + 50);
        feed.submitAttestation(a, sig);

        (uint256 value, uint64 updatedAt) = feed.latestValue();
        assertEq(value, HONEST_PRICE * 101 / 100);
        assertEq(updatedAt, a.issuedAt, "freshness is counted from the signing time");
        assertFalse(feed.isStale());
    }

    function _attestation(uint64 fromBlock, uint64 toBlock, uint256 figure)
        private
        view
        returns (SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a)
    {
        a.requestId = keccak256(abi.encode(fromBlock, toBlock, figure));
        a.chainId = 1;
        a.questionHash = feed.expectedQuestionHash(fromBlock, toBlock);
        a.answerType = 3;
        a.answer = abi.encode(figure);
        a.figure = figure;
        a.fromBlock = fromBlock;
        a.toBlock = toBlock;
        // What the service signs: the hash of the window's closing block. Inside the EVM's 256-block
        // horizon that is what `blockhash` returns; outside it the chain can no longer vouch for it.
        bytes32 closing = blockhash(toBlock);
        a.blockHash = closing != bytes32(0) ? closing : keccak256(abi.encode("block", toBlock));
        a.panelJobId = keccak256("panel");
        a.panelSize = 60;
        a.quorum = 20;
        a.agreed = 20;
        a.issuedAt = uint64(block.timestamp);
        a.expiresAt = uint64(block.timestamp + 1 days);
    }

    function _sign(SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) private view returns (bytes memory) {
        bytes32 structHash = keccak256(
            bytes.concat(
                abi.encode(
                    feed.ATTESTATION_TYPEHASH(),
                    a.requestId,
                    a.chainId,
                    a.questionHash,
                    a.answerType,
                    keccak256(a.answer),
                    a.figure,
                    a.fromBlock
                ),
                abi.encode(
                    a.toBlock, a.blockHash, a.panelJobId, a.panelSize, a.quorum, a.agreed, a.issuedAt, a.expiresAt
                )
            )
        );
        (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) =
            vm.sign(ATTESTER_KEY, keccak256(abi.encodePacked("\x19\x01", feed.DOMAIN_SEPARATOR(), structHash)));
        return abi.encodePacked(r, s, v);
    }
}

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The review is complete. The findings file holds eight entries, three with Foundry proofs that fail on the current code. No tracked files were changed. Only test/scratch/ and .imd-findings.json were added.

Findings

High. SwarmFeed accepts any advancing window (src/SwarmFeed.sol:240). The only placement check is that toBlock exceeds the last accepted one. A freshly signed answer over a window that closed hours or months ago is treated as fresh for an hour. Price feeds are deliberately allowed to lapse, which lifts the deviation bound, and the spot recipe reads a single buyer-chosen block. A buyer with about 1 IMD can re-anchor both feeds to a favourable past reading and mark or liquidate healthy positions, or over-borrow. Reachability hinges on the plane answering a buyer-specified window, which the repository's own QuestionBinding test treats as the adversary. Proof in test/scratch/WindowRecency.t.sol. Fix: when the data chain is the consumer chain, require toBlock to be at most maxSpan blocks behind block.number, and check blockhash when within 256 blocks.

Medium. Relayer with no code passes construction (src/SwarmFeed.sol:145). ATTESTATION_RELAYER is the Sepolia relay. A mainnet build at this commit deploys feeds that revert UnauthorizedRelayer for everyone, forever. Every other pinned prerequisite is code-checked at construction; this one is not. Proof in test/scratch/PinnedAddressGuards.t.sol.

Medium. UsdPriceFeed never checks the Chainlink address (src/UsdPriceFeed.sol:33). CHAINLINK_ETH_USD is the Sepolia aggregator. On mainnet the USD leg reads as permanently stale and the vault refuses every priced action, silently. Same proof file.

Low. Treasury.fundOracle adds a full budget every day (src/Treasury.sol:465) regardless of what the asker still holds. Reserve IMD accumulates in a contract with no return path. The asker's comment that the daily budget is "all this contract can ever hold" is false.

Low. Work-oracle maxAge gates nothing (src/WorkOracleFactory.sol:33). A stale root still grants new rights, contrary to two NatSpec claims. Confirmed by test/scratch/Checks.t.sol.

Info. The arm/ask delay comment is wrong: two flash pushes five blocks apart satisfy it, though fees make it uneconomic. The NHI deviation bound can refuse a legitimate index collapse for a day. docs/ABI.md describes the pre-v2 attestation.

Answers to the six questions

Attestation acceptance. Domain, replay, freshness, deviation, panel floors and question hash are correct. A different question, chain or feed cannot be accepted. A different window can, which is finding 1. A stale feed re-anchors to any value an advancing window yields, with only the attester key behind it.

SwarmRelay. No way to strand keeper funds or steal a payout. Balance-delta accounting protects stranded marker cuts, a fake vault only spends the caller's own tokens, and all feed checks run inside the vault. The known stranded-marker-cut issue stands.

OracleAsker. The need checks are sound and spending is bounded per request, interval and day. The Treasury does pay without need through fundOracle (finding 4). Nobody can block updates beyond a two-hour in-flight slot, and hand relay bypasses that. The v4 slot computation and inversion are correct, and the pool read only decides spending, never the price.

Price composition. Units are correct for 24-decimal sIMD, since every term is per 1e18 raw units. Staleness propagates through both adapters. A failing Chainlink leg or share vault halts rather than misprices. The one gap is the unchecked aggregator address (finding 3).

Feed lifetimes. Age is measured from the signed issuedAt, not from the data's window, so the vault can act on data older than intended (finding 1). tail() is one hour as documented.

SwarmWorkOracle. No double claim, no claim for another agent, and old roots are claimable by design. Staleness is not enforced (find

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highSwarmFeed accepts a freshly signed answer over ANY window after lastToBlock: a buyer picks a favourable historical window and re-anchors a lapsed price feedsrc/SwarmFeed.sol:240
SwarmFeed._requireQuestion binds the question document and bounds the span (300..1200 blocks for PriceFeed, 150..1200 for SpotFeed), but the only check on WHERE the window sits is a.toBlock > lastToBlock. Nothing relates fromBlock/toBlock to block.number, to issuedAt, or to the signed blockHash. The NatSpec at src/SwarmFeed.sol:232-233 claims 'toBlock must advance, so a freshly signed attestation cannot answer over an ANCIENT window in which the price was whatever the buyer needed it to be'; that holds only for windows closing at or before lastToBlock. Every window between lastToBlock and the head is accepted, and freshness is judged from the signed issuedAt (now), so the vault treats a reading of blocks from hours or months ago as fresh for PRICE_MAX_AGE (1 hour).

Why this matters with the constants as committed: price feeds are deliberately NOT kept alive (DeploymentConfig.sol:32-38, PARAMETERS-2026-10-05.md 'Price updates: on demand'), so the primary and spot feeds are routinely stale between updates, and _checkValue lifts the deviation bound once _updatedAt is older than maxAge (SwarmFeed.sol:299). A lapsed feed therefore re-anchors to any value an advancing window produces. SpotFeed's recipe reads only toBlock (samples 1, SpotFeed.sol:45-47), so the buyer selects a single historical block for the divergence leg; the primary's 13-sample median over 300 blocks is selected the same way. The divergence guard (skew 5%) is satisfied by choosing both windows inside the same past move. IMD's pool is thin: a single $460k sale moved it -30.84% (PARAMETERS-2026-10-05.md), so favourable historical readings exist.

Actors and sequence (unprivileged, ~1 IMD): (1) primary feed last accepted window closed at block B0, then no update for hours (normal). (2) Attacker buys two oracle.request payloads for the pinned primary and spot bodies with window {fromBlock: W, toBlock: W+300} and toBlock W+300 respectively, where B0 < W+300 < head and the pool price in that window was, say, 12% below the current market. The plane answers the pinned question; the attestation is signed with issuedAt = now. (3) SwarmRelay.relayMany([primary, spot], ...) then CDPVault.barkFor (or relayAndBark) in one transaction: every check passes (question hash matches expectedQuestionHash(W, W+300); span in range; toBlock > lastToBlock; issuedAt fresh; feed stale so no deviation bound). (4) A borrower at CR 175% (mat 170 at NHI>=0.85) now reads 154% and is marked; at NHI<=0.60 grace is zero and relayAndBite liquidates in the same transaction at the historical price with the 20% bonus. The reverse direction lets the attacker draw against a historical spike and leave under-collateralised debt.

Expected: the vault only acts on a reading of the market near the time of action (DeploymentConfig.sol:36 'never misprice'; PARAMETERS 'Positions are never priced off a stale figure'). Actual: proof below, on chainId 1 with the production span policy, accepts a window that closed 1,000,000 blocks before the head, at half the previous price, after the feed lapsed.

Reachability: depends on the plane answering a buyer-specified historical window. The repository's own threat model assumes it (test/QuestionBinding.t.sol:94-96 describes exactly this adversary and relies on lastToBlock to stop it), and the request schema's window is written by the buyer. If the plane only ever resolves windows ending at its head, the residual is 'buy at the favourable moment', which the median dampens; severity would then be medium.

Smallest fix: in _requireQuestion, when the feed runs on the chain the question is about (attestationChainId == block.chainid, which is the mainnet launch), require a.toBlock <= block.number && block.number - a.toBlock <= maxSpan (or a new policy value such as 300 blocks), reverting with a new WindowNotRecent error; when toBlock is within the last 256 blocks also require a.blockHash == blockhash(a.toBlock). For a cross-chain deployment there is no on-chain reference
Deploy a question-bound SwarmFeed leaf on chainId 1 with span policy (300, 1200).

At block 30,000,000 submit a valid attestation for window [29,999,300, 29,999,600], figure 2.73e15.

Roll to block 31,000,000 and warp 150 days (feed.isStale() == true).

Submit a validly signed attestation with issuedAt = now for window [30,000,000, 30,000,600], figure 1.365e15.

Expected: revert (window is 999,400 blocks behind the head).

Actual: accepted; latestValue() == 1.365e15 and isStale() == false for the next hour.

See test/scratch/WindowRecency.t.sol (fails on this code).
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {SwarmFeed} from "src/SwarmFeed.sol"; /// @dev A question-bound leaf with the production PriceFeed's span policy (300..1200 blocks) and a /// test attester, deployed on the chain its question is ABOUT (chainId 1), which is the mainnet /// launch configuration: consumer chain == data chain, so block.number is comparable to the window. contract RecencyBoundFeed is SwarmFeed { constructor(address attester_) SwarmFeed(attester_, address(0), 1, 3, 1 hours, 5000) {} function questionPolicy() internal pure override returns (bytes memory, uint64, uint64) { return ('{"answerType":"uint256","chainId":1,"question":"q","v":1,"window":{"fromBlock":', 300, 1200); } } /// @notice FAILS on the current SwarmFeed: a freshly signed attestation over a window that closed /// a million blocks before the current head is accepted, because the only window check is /// `toBlock > lastToBlock`. Passes once the feed refuses a window that is not recent relative to /// block.number when the attestation's data chain is the chain the feed runs on. contract WindowRecencyProof is Test { uint256 private constant ATTESTER_KEY = 0xA11CE; RecencyBoundFeed private feed; function setUp() public { vm.chainId(1); vm.warp(1_800_000_000); vm.roll(30_000_000); feed = new RecencyBoundFeed(vm.addr(ATTESTER_KEY)); } function test_aFreshlySignedAnswerOverAWindowAMillionBlocksOldIsRefused() public { // An honest update whose window closed 100 blocks before the head. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory first = _attestation(2_730_000_000_000_000, 29_999_300, 29_999_600, keccak256("first")); feed.submitAttestation(first, _sign(first)); assertEq(feed.lastToBlock(), 29_999_600); // The protocol does not keep price feeds alive on a clock: the feed lapses. Five months pass. vm.roll(31_000_000); vm.warp(block.timestamp + 150 days); assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "the price feed has lapsed, so the deviation bound is lifted"); // A buyer now purchases an answer to the pinned question over a window that closed one // million blocks before the current head, at half the price, and relays it signed today. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory ancient = _attestation(1_365_000_000_000_000, 30_000_000, 30_000_600, keccak256("ancient-but-advancing")); bytes memory sig = _sign(ancient); // Expected: refused, the window is not a reading of the market the vault is about to act in. // Actual on the current code: accepted, and the feed is fresh at a five-month-old price. vm.expectRevert(); feed.submitAttestation(ancient, sig); } function _attestation(uint256 figure, uint64 fromBlock, uint64 toBlock, bytes32 id) private view returns (SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) { a.requestId = id; a.chainId = 1; a.questionHash = feed.expectedQuestionHash(fromBlock, toBlock); a.answerType = 3; a.answer = abi.encode(figure); a.figure = figure; a.fromBlock = fromBlock; a.toBlock = toBlock; a.blockHash = keccak256("b"); a.panelJobId = keccak256("panel"); a.panelSize = 100; a.quorum = 70; a.agreed = 90; a.issuedAt = uint64(block.timestamp); a.expiresAt = uint64(block.timestamp + 1 hours); } function _sign(SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) private view returns (bytes memory) { bytes32 body = keccak256( bytes.concat( abi.encode( feed.ATTESTATION_TYPEHASH(), a.requestId, a.chainId, a.questionHash, a.answerType, keccak256(a.answer), a.figure ), abi.encode( a.fromBlock, a.toBlock, a.blockHash, a.panelJobId, a.panelSize, a.quorum, a.agreed, a.issuedAt, a.expiresAt ) ) ); (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) = vm.sign(ATTESTER_KEY, keccak256(abi.encodePacked("\x19\x01", feed.DOMAIN_SEPARATOR(), body))); return abi.encodePacked(r, s, v); } }
mediumSwarmFeed constructor accepts a nonzero relayer with no code: ATTESTATION_RELAYER is a Sepolia address, so a mainnet build at this commit deploys feeds nobody can ever submit tosrc/SwarmFeed.sol:145
ATTESTATION_RELAYER (DeploymentConfig.sol:78, 0xe36FFc26...) is the SwarmRelay deployed on Sepolia; the comment says so. It is not one of the four placeholders the brief excludes, and it is compiled into PriceFeed, NhiFeed, SpotFeed and SwarmWorkOracle as the sole address allowed to call submitAttestation (SwarmFeed.sol:170). The constructor's only relayer check is relayer_ == address(0) on the unbound branch; it never checks that a nonzero relayer has code. On Ethereum mainnet that address has no code, so new PriceFeed(PRICE_MAX_AGE, 5000) succeeds and produces an immutable feed that reverts UnauthorizedRelayer for every caller forever; OracleAsker.onOracleResult, which calls SwarmRelay(ATTESTATION_RELAYER).relay, fails too. A ParameterizedVault built on such feeds is permanently halted (every priced action reverts StaleFeed). This is the shape of launch 519 the file's own comment warns about: immutable, silent at deploy, discovered at the first seed.

Asymmetry: every other pinned prerequisite in this tree is checked for code at construction (OracleAsker.sol:104 INTAKE, Treasury.sol:455 ORACLE_ASKER, CDPVault.sol:337 WORK_ORACLE_FACTORY, ParameterizedVault.sol:69 TREASURY_FACTORY); the relayer, which is equally load-bearing, is not. The runbook (docs/MAINNET-RUNBOOK.md section 3) lists the CREATE2 swap as a manual step; a constructor check turns a forgotten step into a loud deploy failure instead of a bricked immutable stack.

Smallest fix: in the SwarmFeed constructor add if (relayer_ != address(0) && relayer_.code.length == 0) revert InvalidConfiguration();. Tests that construct the real leaves without etching the relay (PinnedAuthorityTest, QuestionBindingTest.test_everyProductionFeedPinsItsQuestion, ManifestConstructible) then need vm.etch(ATTESTATION_RELAYER, ...), which test/OracleAsker.t.sol already does.
On any chain where ATTESTATION_RELAYER has no code (vm.chainId(1) in a test; Ethereum mainnet in reality): new PriceFeed(PRICE_MAX_AGE, 5000).

Expected: revert.

Actual: deploys; afterwards every submitAttestation from any address reverts UnauthorizedRelayer and the feed is inert forever.

See test/scratch/PinnedAddressGuards.t.sol (first test fails on this code).
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {PriceFeed} from "src/PriceFeed.sol"; import {UsdPriceFeed} from "src/UsdPriceFeed.sol"; import {ISwarmFeed} from "src/interfaces/ISwarmFeed.sol"; import {ATTESTATION_RELAYER, CHAINLINK_ETH_USD, PRICE_MAX_AGE} from "src/DeploymentConfig.sol"; /// @notice FAILS on the current code: on a chain where the pinned relayer and the pinned Chainlink /// aggregator have no code (which is what Ethereum mainnet is for the two Sepolia addresses in /// DeploymentConfig at this commit), PriceFeed and UsdPriceFeed construct successfully. The feed is /// then permanently inert (nobody can be `relayer`) and the USD leg permanently stale, and both are /// immutable, which is the launch-519 failure the rest of the repository guards against with /// `code.length` checks (OracleAsker on INTAKE, Treasury on ORACLE_ASKER, CDPVault on the factory). /// Passes once SwarmFeed refuses a nonzero relayer with no code and UsdPriceFeed refuses an /// aggregator with no code. contract PinnedAddressGuardsProof is Test { function setUp() public { vm.chainId(1); vm.warp(1_800_000_000); vm.roll(30_000_000); assertEq(ATTESTATION_RELAYER.code.length, 0, "the pinned relayer has no code on this chain"); assertEq(CHAINLINK_ETH_USD.code.length, 0, "the pinned aggregator has no code on this chain"); } function test_aFeedWhosePinnedRelayerHasNoCodeIsNotConstructible() public { // Expected: construction reverts, because no address can ever satisfy `msg.sender == relayer`. // Actual: a PriceFeed is deployed that refuses every submitAttestation with UnauthorizedRelayer. vm.expectRevert(); new PriceFeed(PRICE_MAX_AGE, 5000); } function test_aUsdFeedWhosePinnedAggregatorHasNoCodeIsNotConstructible() public { // A real IMD/ETH leg, so the only thing wrong is the USD leg's address. vm.etch(ATTESTATION_RELAYER, hex"6000"); PriceFeed leg = new PriceFeed(PRICE_MAX_AGE, 5000); // Expected: construction reverts, because the USD leg can never answer. // Actual: a UsdPriceFeed is deployed whose isStale() is true forever. vm.expectRevert(); new UsdPriceFeed(ISwarmFeed(address(leg))); } }
mediumUsdPriceFeed never checks that CHAINLINK_ETH_USD has code; the constant is the Sepolia aggregator, so a mainnet vault at this commit is permanently stalesrc/UsdPriceFeed.sol:33
The constructor checks the IMD/ETH leg has code but not the USD leg. CHAINLINK_ETH_USD (DeploymentConfig.sol:21) is 0x694AA176..., Chainlink ETH/USD on Sepolia; the mainnet aggregator is 0x5f4eC3Df... (runbook section 3). On mainnet the staticcall in _ethUsd returns success with empty data (no code), data.length < 160 makes it read as (0,0,0), so isStale() is true and latestValue() is (0,0) forever. ParameterizedVault._pricingStale reads collateralPriceFeed.isStale(), so draw, free-with-debt, cash, bark, heel, bite and (with a finite ceiling) earn all revert StaleFeed; the vault's immutables cannot be repointed. The degrade-not-revert design makes this failure silent: nothing at deploy or on the first read tells the operator the address is wrong.

Smallest fix: if (address(ETH_USD).code.length == 0) revert InvalidFeed(); in the UsdPriceFeed constructor (ParameterizedVault creates it, so the vault deploy fails loudly). Tests already etch an aggregator at CHAINLINK_ETH_USD before building vaults; ReserveValuation.t.sol:392 etches empty code only after construction, so it is unaffected.
On a chain where CHAINLINK_ETH_USD has no code: deploy a PriceFeed, then new UsdPriceFeed(ISwarmFeed(priceFeed)).

Expected: revert.

Actual: deploys; isStale() returns true and latestValue() returns (0, 0) regardless of the IMD/ETH leg, and a ParameterizedVault built on it refuses every price-dependent action.

See test/scratch/PinnedAddressGuards.t.sol (second test fails on this code).
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {PriceFeed} from "src/PriceFeed.sol"; import {UsdPriceFeed} from "src/UsdPriceFeed.sol"; import {ISwarmFeed} from "src/interfaces/ISwarmFeed.sol"; import {ATTESTATION_RELAYER, CHAINLINK_ETH_USD, PRICE_MAX_AGE} from "src/DeploymentConfig.sol"; /// @notice FAILS on the current code: on a chain where the pinned relayer and the pinned Chainlink /// aggregator have no code (which is what Ethereum mainnet is for the two Sepolia addresses in /// DeploymentConfig at this commit), PriceFeed and UsdPriceFeed construct successfully. The feed is /// then permanently inert (nobody can be `relayer`) and the USD leg permanently stale, and both are /// immutable, which is the launch-519 failure the rest of the repository guards against with /// `code.length` checks (OracleAsker on INTAKE, Treasury on ORACLE_ASKER, CDPVault on the factory). /// Passes once SwarmFeed refuses a nonzero relayer with no code and UsdPriceFeed refuses an /// aggregator with no code. contract PinnedAddressGuardsProof is Test { function setUp() public { vm.chainId(1); vm.warp(1_800_000_000); vm.roll(30_000_000); assertEq(ATTESTATION_RELAYER.code.length, 0, "the pinned relayer has no code on this chain"); assertEq(CHAINLINK_ETH_USD.code.length, 0, "the pinned aggregator has no code on this chain"); } function test_aFeedWhosePinnedRelayerHasNoCodeIsNotConstructible() public { // Expected: construction reverts, because no address can ever satisfy `msg.sender == relayer`. // Actual: a PriceFeed is deployed that refuses every submitAttestation with UnauthorizedRelayer. vm.expectRevert(); new PriceFeed(PRICE_MAX_AGE, 5000); } function test_aUsdFeedWhosePinnedAggregatorHasNoCodeIsNotConstructible() public { // A real IMD/ETH leg, so the only thing wrong is the USD leg's address. vm.etch(ATTESTATION_RELAYER, hex"6000"); PriceFeed leg = new PriceFeed(PRICE_MAX_AGE, 5000); // Expected: construction reverts, because the USD leg can never answer. // Actual: a UsdPriceFeed is deployed whose isStale() is true forever. vm.expectRevert(); new UsdPriceFeed(ISwarmFeed(address(leg))); } }
lowTreasury.fundOracle streams the whole daily budget regardless of what OracleAsker still holds; unspent reserve IMD accumulates in a contract with no way out, contradicting the asker's 'all this contrasrc/Treasury.sol:465
fundOracle is permissionless and keyless by design, but its only bound is per UTC day: want = budget - oracleSpent, capped by the Treasury's own balance, with no reference to ORACLE_ASKER's existing balance. OracleAsker spends only through ask() when the chain shows a need (drift at >25% with the scripts' 5000 bps cap, or NHI 75% to stale), has no withdraw, sweep or return path, and INTAKE is a source constant. So on every quiet day anyone can move ORACLE_BUDGET_PER_DAY (10 IMD, about $109 at $10.92) out of the reserve the vault prices redemptions and the work ceiling against (ParameterizedVault.redemptionReserve / Treasury.reserveValueUsd read the Treasury's sIMD balance) into a contract that may never spend it. Over a year with few asks that is about 3,650 IMD (about $40k) of backing removed with no way back, and it is lost outright if the Intake is ever retired or re-deployed. The NatSpec at src/OracleAsker.sol:48-50 states Treasury spending is bounded by 'the Treasury's daily budget, which is all this contract can ever hold', which the code does not enforce: the asker holds the sum of every unspent day.

This is a bound on spending the chain does not justify (question 3), not a bug in ask(): the asker's own need checks are sound. Smallest fix: make fundOracle a top-up rather than an add, e.g. uint256 held = IERC20(share ? IShareVault(token).asset() : token).balanceOf(ORACLE_ASKER); want = want > held ? want - held : 0; so the asker is refilled to at most one day's budget; and correct the comment in OracleAsker.
ParameterizedVault with Treasury holding 100 sIMD-equivalent IMD and oracleBudget = 10e18; ORACLE_ASKER has code.

Day D: anyone calls treasury.fundOracle() -> 10 IMD sent to the asker; no feed is near stale and the pool has not drifted, so asker.ask() reverts NotNeeded/NotArmed for every feed.

Day D+1: treasury.fundOracle() again -> another 10 IMD.

Expected (per OracleAsker.sol:50): the asker never holds more than one day's budget.

Actual: asker balance 20 IMD, Treasury reserve down 20 IMD, and no function on OracleAsker can return it.
lowSwarmWorkOracle maxAge gates nothing: a stale tally still grants new rights, contrary to the NatSpec on WorkOracleFactory.create and WORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGEsrc/WorkOracleFactory.sol:33
WorkOracleFactory.create documents maxAge_ as 'Seconds after which an attested tally is stale and grants nothing new', and DeploymentConfig.sol:194 says 'A stale tally grants nothing NEW'. In SwarmWorkOracle neither recordRoot (line 108-116, reads this.latestValue() with no isStale check) nor claim (line 142-157, checks only acceptedRoots, the controller and the proof) consults staleness, and CDPVault.earn checks the price and NHI feeds, not the work oracle.

So WORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGE (1 day) only limits how long after issuedAt an attestation may be relayed; once a root is in acceptedRoots it mints rights indefinitely. The accepted-roots SET is deliberately designed so older roots stay claimable (SwarmWorkOracle.sol:69-74), so the code is defensible and the claim is what is wrong; but a reader of the factory or the constant believes the compute channel shuts off when the plane stops publishing, and it does not.

Smallest fix: correct both comments; if the shut-off is wanted, add if (this.isStale()) revert to recordRoot (the set still allows proving against older recorded roots, so this only stops NEW roots being recorded from a lapsed feed).
Deploy SwarmWorkOracle(vault=any contract, maxAge=1 day).

Accept an attestation whose figure is a root R containing leaf (agentId 7, accepted 3, cumulative 3); recordRoot().

Warp 2 days: isStale() == true.

With ERC8004_ADAPTER.isController(7, A) == true, A calls claim(7, 3, 3, proof, R).

Expected per NatSpec: nothing new granted.

Actual: returns 3 * WAGE_WAD (3e16) and mintingRights(A) == 3e16; confirmed by test/scratch/Checks.t.sol.
infoOracleAsker NatSpec: the arm/ask delay does not stop single-transaction pool pushes; two flash pushes five blocks apart satisfy it (uneconomic with the constants as committed)src/OracleAsker.sol:41
The comment states that a pool 'pushed off-price and back inside one transaction (a flash loan) cannot trigger a paid update; holding it off-price across blocks means fighting arbitrageurs with real capital'. arm() samples driftBps at block A; ask() samples it again at any block in [A+ARM_DELAY_BLOCKS, A+ARM_WINDOW_BLOCKS] and never checks that the pool stayed off-price in between.

Two independent one-transaction manipulations (push, arm, restore at block A; push, ask, restore at block A+5) pass both checks with no position held across blocks.

The mechanism claim is false; the economic conclusion still holds because each push through the 1% full-range pool costs far more in fees (moving IMD 25%, half the scripts' 5000 bps cap, needs roughly $270k of ETH in and out, about $5.4k of fees per push) than the 0.5 IMD (about $5.5) it makes the Treasury spend, and spending is capped at ASK_MAX_PRICE per ASK_MIN_INTERVAL per feed under the daily budget.

Reported so the comment is corrected rather than relied on; if the guarantee is wanted, record driftBps at arm and require the pool price at ask to be on the same side and beyond the trigger, or sample a third block.
Using the fixture in test/OracleAsker.t.sol: _setPool(IMD_ETH * 126 / 100); asker.arm(priceFeed); _setPool(IMD_ETH) in the same block. vm.roll(+ARM_DELAY_BLOCKS). _setPool(IMD_ETH * 126 / 100); asker.ask(priceFeed, PRICE_BODY) succeeds and pays the Intake; _setPool(IMD_ETH).

Expected per comment: NotNeeded because the drift was not held across blocks.

Actual: paid.
infoNHI deviation bound refuses a legitimate step collapse of the health index for up to a day, holding mat/lull at the healthy setting (design observation)src/NhiFeed.sol:24
SwarmFeed._checkValue applies the price-style deviation bound to NhiFeed while its value is fresh (24 hours). The NHI is a bounded index (4p + 3s + 3r)/10 whose components step: all three core services down moves it by -0.30 of full scale, participation to zero by -0.40. launch.json deploys NhiFeed with 2000 bps and the deploy scripts with 5000 bps.

From 0.90e18, an honest attestation of 0.60e18 (-33%) is refused with ExcessDeviation under 2000 bps, and 0.45e18 under 5000 bps, until the feed is stale a day later; meanwhile CDPVault.mat() stays 170 and lull() 6 hours where the formula gives 200 and 0.

The constant is a deliberate choice and the fail direction is 'keep the last value', so this is recorded as an observation for the parameter record, not a defect: the bound protects a price from a bad figure, but the NHI is already bounded to [0, 1e18] and is the input that is supposed to move sharply under stress.
NhiFeed(1 days, 2000) fresh at 0.90e18.

Submit a valid attestation with figure 0.60e18.

Expected (health formula): mat 200, lull 0.

Actual: revert ExcessDeviation (change 0.30e18 > 0.90e18 * 2000 / 10000 = 0.18e18); mat() stays 170 and lull() 6 hours until the 0.90e18 value is older than 24 hours.
infodocs/ABI.md describes the pre-v2 attestation: 12-field tuple, EIP-712 version 1, reporter round, 150% matdocs/ABI.md:84
The ABI reference says submitAttestation takes a 12-field OracleAttestation with no panelSize/quorum/agreed, domain version '1', and that the feed 'discards any unfinished reporter round'; the code (SwarmFeed.sol:26-42, 75-77, 110-118) has 15 fields, version '2', no reporter path, and panel floors. The same file states mat is 150 at NHI >= 0.85 and uses 'COMP'; CDPVault._mat returns 170. An integrator encoding the documented tuple gets InvalidSignature or an ABI decode failure.

Fix: regenerate the section from forge inspect, as INTERNAL-AUDIT-2026-10-04.md section 3.7 did for docs/abi.
Encode an OracleAttestation as the 12-field tuple documented at docs/ABI.md:84 and call submitAttestation: the call cannot be ABI-decoded by the 15-field signature and reverts. Compare docs/ABI.md:84 ('version 1') with src/SwarmFeed.sol:114 (keccak256("2")).
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#194Audit mathClaude8 findings · 1 high
The review is complete. Findings are in .imd-findings.json (8 entries, 2 with Foundry proofs under test/scratch/, both verified to fail on the current code).

Findings

High. Attestation windows are bound to the last accepted window, not to the present (src/SwarmFeed.sol:240). Freshness is measured from the signing time, and the only window checks are span and advancing toBlock. After a quiet spell a requester buys an attestation for the pinned question over any window that opened after the last accepted one, signed now, and it reads fresh for an hour. Both primary and spot can be set this way from the same old period, so they agree within the 5% skew. With a 30% fall since the last update, a borrower draws against collateral valued at the old price and liquidators are priced off the same figure. Fix: bound toBlock to the present on mainnet, or verify the attestation's own blockHash against blockhash(toBlock). Proof fails with "next call did not revert".

Medium. A hand relay before the Intake's callback holds the asker's in-flight slot for two hours (src/OracleAsker.sol:224). The callback re-relays the same request, the feed answers ReplayedAttestation, the callback reverts and the slot clear is undone. The Intake never retries, so ask and askPaid for that feed are refused until ASK_TIMEOUT. Honest keepers bundling relayAndBite trigger it; a griefer can trigger it on every delivery. Fix: skip the relay when usedRequests is already set, or try/catch it. Proof fails with InFlight.

Low. No upper bound on toBlock (src/SwarmFeed.sol:243). A window signed past the head raises lastToBlock forever and bricks the feed, and so the vault. Contract-side gap is certain; reachability depends on whether the service signs such a window, which I could not verify. Same one-line fix.

Low. Drift trigger samples the pool only at arm and ask (src/OracleAsker.sol:150). Two flash pushes five blocks apart make the Treasury pay. Not profitable at the committed constants, but the "real capital across blocks" claim is false.

Low. The oracle budget accumulates in the asker with no exit (src/Treasury.sol:465). fundOracle ignores the asker's balance and the asker can only spend on requests. Unspent budget leaves the reserve permanently. Fix: top up to one day's budget and add a return path.

Low. Sepolia addresses pinned for Chainlink and the relay (src/DeploymentConfig.sol:21). Compiled as committed for mainnet, the USD leg reads zero and every feed is inert. The runbook lists both as must-change; the runbook's own parameter table is also stale.

Info. The work oracle never reads its staleness (src/SwarmWorkOracle.sol:109), and SpotFeed's "tighter window" comment no longer matches equal max ages (src/SpotFeed.sol:21).

The six questions

Attestation acceptance. Domain, replay, signature malleability, panel floors, chain and answer-type binding, and question-hash reconstruction are all correct; a different question, chain, feed or already-used request cannot be accepted. The gap is the window: see the high and the second low. Re-anchoring a stale feed to an arbitrary value is not possible, but re-anchoring to any honest value from a requester-chosen past window is.

SwarmRelay. No stranding, theft or feed bypass found. Balance-delta accounting, exact pull of debtToRepay, and both end-of-call assertions hold; the only guarded functions move tokens. A bundle front-run by a plain relay of the same attestation reverts whole, which is the accepted OEV note.

OracleAsker. Treasury spend is justified by chain state except for the two-flash arming case, and is bounded by the ask rate rather than the budget because the balance accumulates. Updates can be blocked for two hours per delivery by the replay race. The v4 slot read, bit mask, inversion and precision are correct; delivery of a cold first attestation through the real prefixes measured about 150k gas, inside

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highSwarmFeed accepts a freshly signed attestation over a window that closed days ago: the window is bound only to the last accepted one, never to the presentsrc/SwarmFeed.sol:240
File/function: src/SwarmFeed.sol _requireQuestion, reached from submitAttestation (PriceFeed, SpotFeed, NhiFeed, SwarmWorkOracle all inherit it). Freshness is measured from issuedAt (the signing time, line 177) and the window is checked only for span (line 239) and for a.toBlock > lastToBlock (line 240). Nothing compares a.toBlock with block.number.

The comment at lines 232-233 ('toBlock must advance, so a freshly signed attestation cannot answer over an ANCIENT window in which the price was whatever the buyer needed it to be') and README.md:99-100 claim otherwise. The claim only holds for windows BEFORE the last accepted one.

Every window between the last accepted toBlock and the present is accepted, and under on-demand pricing (DeploymentConfig.sol:32-38: prices are not kept fresh on a clock, PRICE_MAX_AGE = 1 hour) that range is hours or days wide most of the time.

The oracle request body carries the window explicitly (window: {fromBlock, toBlock}, as oracle/nhi-composite-quote.json and oracle/vwap-oracle-quote.json do) and the attester signs under whatever consumer.verifyingContract the requester names (docs/INTERNAL-AUDIT-2026-10-04.md 3.8, test/audit/PermissionlessRelay.t.sol), so a requester chooses the window.

Call sequence from an external caller: (1) the feed's last accepted attestation covered [26,000,000-26,000,600] at T0; (2) two days pass with no update; the feed is stale so the deviation bound (line 299) is lifted; (3) the attacker buys an attestation for the pinned question over [26,000,601-26,001,201] naming the feed as consumer, signed now (issuedAt = now, expiresAt = now + 1 day); (4) SwarmRelay.relay(feed, a, sig) from any address.

Checks: span 600 in [300,1200], toBlock advances, questionHash == expectedQuestionHash(26000601, 26001201), issuedAt not too old, replay nonce fresh, signature valid. Expected (per the comment, README and the 1-hour PRICE_MAX_AGE chosen in docs/PARAMETERS-2026-10-05.md on the basis that the primary's content is 'about an hour behind'): refused.

Actual: accepted; latestValue() returns the two-day-old median with updatedAt = now and isStale() is false for the next hour. Vault impact with the constants as committed: the same is done for SpotFeed (its answer is the price at the chosen toBlock alone, SpotFeed.sol:45-47), with a toBlock from the same old period so primary and spot agree within SKEW_BPS 500.

If IMD fell 30% over those two days (the runbook records a 44.6% one-day move), a borrower then calls draw: a position whose sIMD is worth $70,000 today is valued at $100,000, so at mat 170 it mints up to $58,823 imdUSD against $70,000 of collateral (true ratio 119%, below mat and below the 120% liquidation payout for part of it); barkFor on it reverts HealthyPosition because liquidators read the same stale figure.

Repeating with the next unused 600-block window keeps the stale price alive for as long as there are windows between the last update and the present.

Smallest fix: on the consumer chain (mainnet: data chain == consumer chain, ATTESTATION_CHAIN_ID = 1) bound the window to the present in _requireQuestion: if (a.toBlock > block.number || block.number - a.toBlock > maxSpan) revert WindowTooOld(); (maxSpan is already in questionPolicy). Stronger and already carried by the struct: if (blockhash(a.toBlock) != a.blockHash) revert WrongBlock();, which pins toBlock to the last 256 blocks and verifies the hash the panel read.

A Sepolia consumer of mainnet data would need a different check; the mainnet launch does not.

Proof: test/scratch/WindowLag.t.sol (first test fails on this code with 'next call did not revert as expected'; the positive control shows a window that closed 10 blocks ago is still accepted and must stay accepted after the fix).
Leaf pinning a question with span [300,1200], maxAge 1 hour, chain 1, block 26,000,700, t = 10 days.

Accept window [26,000,000-26,000,600] at t. warp +2 days, roll +14,400.

Submit attestation with fromBlock 26,000,601, toBlock 26,001,201, issuedAt = now, expiresAt = now + 1 day, figure 3e15, questionHash = expectedQuestionHash(26000601, 26001201), signed by the attester.

Expected: revert (window closed ~14,000 blocks / 2 days before the present).

Actual: accepted; latestValue() == (3e15, now); isStale() == false.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {SwarmFeed} from "src/SwarmFeed.sol"; /// @dev A leaf that pins a question the way PriceFeed does (same mechanism: SwarmFeed._requireQuestion /// splices the signed window onto a pinned prefix). The attester is a test key so the test can sign. contract BoundLeaf is SwarmFeed { constructor(address attester_) SwarmFeed(attester_, address(0), 1, 3, 1 hours, 2000) {} function questionPolicy() internal pure override returns (bytes memory, uint64, uint64) { return ('{"answerType":"uint256","chainId":1,"question":"q","v":1,"window":{"fromBlock":', 300, 1200); } } /// @notice Finding: the window a pinned-question attestation answers over is bound only to the LAST /// ACCEPTED window (toBlock must advance), never to the present block. Freshness is measured from /// `issuedAt`, the signing time. So once a feed has been quiet for a while, an attestation signed now /// over any window that closed just after the last accepted one — days before the present — is /// accepted and reads as fresh for maxAge, and the vault prices collateral at a days-old market. contract WindowLagTest is Test { uint256 private constant ATTESTER_KEY = 0xA11CE; BoundLeaf private feed; function setUp() public { vm.chainId(1); vm.warp(10 days); vm.roll(26_000_700); feed = new BoundLeaf(vm.addr(ATTESTER_KEY)); } function test_aWindowThatClosedTwoDaysAgoIsRefusedWhenSignedNow() public { // Day 0: an honest attestation over a window that just closed. Accepted. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(26_000_000, 26_000_600, 3_000_000_000_000_000); feed.submitAttestation(a, _sign(a)); assertFalse(feed.isStale()); // Two days pass with no update (prices are bought on demand, not on a clock). vm.warp(block.timestamp + 2 days); vm.roll(block.number + 14_400); assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "quiet feed is stale"); // Day 2: an attestation SIGNED NOW over the window that opened right after the last accepted // one, i.e. one that closed ~2 days ago. The span is in bounds, toBlock advances, the question // hash matches, issuedAt is now. Expected: refused, because the window is ancient relative to // the present. Actual: accepted and the feed reads fresh at the two-day-old figure. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory old_ = _attestation(26_000_601, 26_001_201, 3_000_000_000_000_000); bytes memory sig = _sign(old_); vm.expectRevert(); feed.submitAttestation(old_, sig); assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "a two-day-old reading must not become the fresh price"); } function test_positiveControl_aCurrentWindowIsStillAccepted() public { SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(26_000_000, 26_000_600, 3_000_000_000_000_000); feed.submitAttestation(a, _sign(a)); vm.warp(block.timestamp + 2 days); vm.roll(block.number + 14_400); // A window that closed a few blocks ago is what an honest, freshly bought attestation looks like. uint64 to = uint64(block.number - 10); SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory b = _attestation(to - 600, to, 2_900_000_000_000_000); feed.submitAttestation(b, _sign(b)); assertFalse(feed.isStale()); } function _attestation(uint64 fromBlock, uint64 toBlock, uint256 figure) private view returns (SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) { a.requestId = keccak256(abi.encode(fromBlock, toBlock, figure)); a.chainId = 1; a.questionHash = feed.expectedQuestionHash(fromBlock, toBlock); a.answerType = 3; a.answer = abi.encode(figure); a.figure = figure; a.fromBlock = fromBlock; a.toBlock = toBlock; a.blockHash = blockhash(toBlock); a.panelJobId = keccak256("panel"); a.panelSize = 60; a.quorum = 20; a.agreed = 40; a.issuedAt = uint64(block.timestamp); a.expiresAt = uint64(block.timestamp + 1 days); } function _sign(SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) private view returns (bytes memory) { bytes32 body = keccak256( bytes.concat( abi.encode( feed.ATTESTATION_TYPEHASH(), a.requestId, a.chainId, a.questionHash, a.answerType, keccak256(a.answer), a.figure ), abi.encode( a.fromBlock, a.toBlock, a.blockHash, a.panelJobId, a.panelSize, a.quorum, a.agreed, a.issuedAt, a.expiresAt ) ) ); (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) = vm.sign(ATTESTER_KEY, keccak256(abi.encodePacked("\x19\x01", feed.DOMAIN_SEPARATOR(), body))); return abi.encodePacked(r, s, v); } }
mediumOracleAsker.onOracleResult reverts when the attestation was already relayed by hand, so the Intake's delivery leaves the feed's in-flight slot held for ASK_TIMEOUT and blocks ask and askPaid for two hsrc/OracleAsker.sol:224
File/function: src/OracleAsker.sol onOracleResult. It clears f.inFlight/f.inFlightAt (lines 220-223) and then calls SwarmRelay.relay, which calls feed.submitAttestation. If the feed has already consumed that requestId, submitAttestation reverts ReplayedAttestation (SwarmFeed.sol:178), the revert propagates, and the whole callback reverts, undoing the slot clear.

The Intake records the completion as not delivered and never retries (docs/ONCHAIN-INTAKE-INTEGRATION.md: 'the same request cannot be completed again'). The slot then stays occupied until inFlightAt + ASK_TIMEOUT (2 hours, lines 140 and 170), during which ask and askPaid for that feed revert InFlight.

The attestation is public before the completion transaction lands (docs/INTERNAL-AUDIT-2026-10-04.md 3.8: GET /oracle/requests serves signed attestations unauthenticated), SwarmRelay is permissionless, and the protocol's own keeper design (SwarmRelay.relayAndBite) is to relay the public attestation bundled with a liquidation. So the race is hit in normal operation by an honest keeper, and can be forced on every delivery by anyone for gas.

Call sequence: (1) anyone: asker.ask(nhiFeed, body) (Treasury pays 0.5 IMD) or askPaid; (2) the service signs; (3) stranger: SwarmRelay.relay(feed, a, sig) ahead of the Intake's completion; (4) Intake: complete(id) -> asker.onOracleResult(id, a, sig) -> relay -> ReplayedAttestation -> callback reverts; (5) borrower: asker.askPaid(feed, body, 0.5e18) -> InFlight(id).

Expected: the request was fulfilled (the feed holds exactly this attestation), so the slot is released and the next update can be bought at once.

Actual: InFlight for 2 hours; the Treasury's drift and keep-alive asks and every borrower's paid ask for that feed are refused; the only route is buying off chain and relaying by hand. Repeated on each delivery this degrades the automated path to one request per feed per 2 hours. The comment at lines 54-55 ('anyone can relay it by hand') does not mention this cost.

Smallest fix: before relaying, if (SwarmFeed(feed).usedRequests(a.requestId)) { emit Delivered(feed, requestId); return; } (the slot is already cleared above); or wrap the relay in try/catch so the slot clear survives a refused attestation.

Proof: test/scratch/AskerReplayRace.t.sol fails on this code with InFlight(id).
keepAlive feed seeded at 0.9e18 with maxAge 1 day; warp +20 h (nearStale); ask -> id.

Sign attestation (requestId keccak('req'), figure 0.88e18, issuedAt now).

Stranger calls SwarmRelay.relay(feed, a, sig): feed value 0.88e18.

Intake completes id with (id, a, sig) under 200k gas: delivered == false.

Stranger approves 0.5 IMD and calls askPaid(feed, body, 0.5e18).

Expected: a new request id.

Actual: revert InFlight(id) until 2 hours after the ask.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol"; import {SwarmFeed} from "src/SwarmFeed.sol"; import {SwarmRelay} from "src/SwarmRelay.sol"; import {OracleAsker} from "src/OracleAsker.sol"; import {MockIMD} from "src/MockIMD.sol"; import {IIntake} from "src/interfaces/IIntake.sol"; import {APPROVED_OPERATOR, INTAKE, ORACLE_ACTION, ATTESTATION_RELAYER, ASK_TIMEOUT} from "src/DeploymentConfig.sol"; /// @dev Minimal Intake shaped like PR #66: collects the price, records the callback, and when told to /// complete calls the target once with a fixed 200k stipend, recording rather than trusting the outcome. contract ScratchIntake { mapping(bytes32 => mapping(address => uint256)) public priceOf; mapping(bytes32 => IIntake.Callback) public callbackOf; uint256 public nonce; function setPrice(bytes32 action, address asset, uint256 amount) external { priceOf[action][asset] = amount; } function request(bytes32 action, bytes calldata, IIntake.Callback calldata callback, address asset, uint256 amount) external payable returns (bytes32 requestId) { uint256 price = priceOf[action][asset]; require(price != 0 && amount >= price, "not sold"); IERC20(asset).transferFrom(msg.sender, address(this), amount); requestId = keccak256(abi.encode(block.chainid, address(this), ++nonce)); callbackOf[requestId] = callback; } function complete(bytes32 requestId, bytes calldata args) external returns (bool delivered) { IIntake.Callback memory c = callbackOf[requestId]; (delivered,) = c.target.call{gas: 200_000}(bytes.concat(c.selector, args)); } } /// @dev Unbound test leaf behind the pinned relay, as the asker's own suite uses. contract Leaf is SwarmFeed { constructor(address attester_) SwarmFeed(attester_, ATTESTATION_RELAYER, 1, 3, 1 days, 2000) {} function seed(uint256 value) external { _accept(value, uint64(block.timestamp)); } } /// @notice Finding: an attestation the Intake is about to deliver is public, and SwarmRelay is /// permissionless. If anyone relays it by hand before the Intake's completion lands (a keeper /// bundling `relayAndBite`, or a griefer), the Intake's callback reverts with ReplayedAttestation and /// `onOracleResult` never clears the feed's in-flight slot. `ask` and `askPaid` for that feed are then /// refused with InFlight for ASK_TIMEOUT (2 hours), even though the feed holds the delivered figure. contract AskerReplayRaceTest is Test { uint256 private constant ATTESTER_KEY = 0xA11CE; address private constant STRANGER = address(0x5757); uint256 private constant PRICE = 0.5 ether; MockIMD private imd; ScratchIntake private intake; Leaf private feed; OracleAsker private asker; bytes private constant BODY = '{"question":"network health"}'; function setUp() public { vm.chainId(11155111); vm.warp(10 days); vm.roll(1_000); vm.etch(ATTESTATION_RELAYER, address(new SwarmRelay()).code); vm.etch(INTAKE, address(new ScratchIntake()).code); intake = ScratchIntake(INTAKE); imd = new MockIMD(); intake.setPrice(ORACLE_ACTION, address(imd), PRICE); feed = new Leaf(vm.addr(ATTESTER_KEY)); address[] memory feeds = new address[](1); feeds[0] = address(feed); bytes32[] memory hashes = new bytes32[](1); hashes[0] = keccak256(BODY); bool[] memory tracks = new bool[](1); bool[] memory keepAlive = new bool[](1); keepAlive[0] = true; asker = new OracleAsker(IERC20(address(imd)), feeds, hashes, tracks, keepAlive); vm.prank(APPROVED_OPERATOR); imd.mint(address(asker), 100 ether); vm.prank(APPROVED_OPERATOR); imd.mint(STRANGER, 10 ether); feed.seed(0.9 ether); } function test_aHandRelayBeforeTheCallbackMustNotHoldTheSlotForTwoHours() public { vm.warp(block.timestamp + 20 hours); // 83% of the way to stale: the Treasury pays bytes32 id = asker.ask(address(feed), BODY); // The attestation is signed and public before the Intake's completion transaction lands. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(keccak256("req"), 0.88 ether); bytes memory sig = _sign(a); // Anyone relays it by hand first (a keeper bundling a liquidation does exactly this). vm.prank(STRANGER); SwarmRelay(ATTESTATION_RELAYER).relay(feed, a, sig); (uint256 value,) = feed.latestValue(); assertEq(value, 0.88 ether, "the feed holds the figure"); // The Intake then completes: the callback relays the same request id, the feed says // ReplayedAttestation, and onOracleResult reverts without clearing the in-flight slot. bool delivered = intake.complete(id, abi.encode(id, a, sig)); assertFalse(delivered, "callback reverted on the replay"); // Expected: the request was fulfilled (the feed holds exactly this attestation), so the // asker's slot is free and a borrower can buy the next update at once. // Actual: InFlight(id) for ASK_TIMEOUT. vm.startPrank(STRANGER); imd.approve(address(asker), PRICE); asker.askPaid(address(feed), BODY, PRICE); vm.stopPrank(); } function _attestation(bytes32 id, uint256 figure) private view returns (SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) { a.requestId = id; a.chainId = 1; a.questionHash = keccak256("q"); a.answerType = 3; a.answer = abi.encode(figure); a.figure = figure; a.fromBlock = 100; a.toBlock = 200; a.blockHash = keccak256("b"); a.panelJobId = keccak256("panel"); a.panelSize = 60; a.quorum = 20; a.agreed = 40; a.issuedAt = uint64(block.timestamp); a.expiresAt = uint64(block.timestamp + 1 hours); } function _sign(SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) private view returns (bytes memory) { bytes32 body = keccak256( bytes.concat( abi.encode( feed.ATTESTATION_TYPEHASH(), a.requestId, a.chainId, a.questionHash, a.answerType, keccak256(a.answer), a.figure ), abi.encode( a.fromBlock, a.toBlock, a.blockHash, a.panelJobId, a.panelSize, a.quorum, a.agreed, a.issuedAt, a.expiresAt ) ) ); (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) = vm.sign(ATTESTER_KEY, keccak256(abi.encodePacked("\x19\x01", feed.DOMAIN_SEPARATOR(), body))); return abi.encodePacked(r, s, v); } }
lowSwarmFeed has no upper bound on toBlock: an attestation whose signed window lies beyond the head raises lastToBlock permanently and every later honest attestation is refusedsrc/SwarmFeed.sol:243
File/function: src/SwarmFeed.sol _requireQuestion. lastToBlock is written from the signed a.toBlock after only the span and advancing checks; a.toBlock <= block.number is never required and a.blockHash is never checked. A feed is immutable with no reset and no admin (lines 20, 25).

If one attestation with toBlock = 1,000,000,000 is accepted, every subsequent honest attestation (toBlock near 26,000,000) reverts WindowNotAdvancing(26000600, 1000000000) forever; for NhiFeed that means nhiFeed.isStale() is true after NHI_MAX_AGE and every price-dependent vault action reverts StaleFeed permanently (CDPVault.sol:1078), and replacing the feed means a new vault.

Precondition, which I could not verify and which decides the severity: the oracle service must be willing to sign an explicit window past the chain head. For chain-read questions a panel cannot read future blocks and should refuse; the NHI question is explicitly 'not tied to the block window at all' (NhiFeed.sol:38, a live API read), so a panel can answer it for any window.

Reported as low because the contract-side gap is certain and the fix is one comparison, while reachability depends on the off-chain service's window validation.

Call sequence: buy an NHI attestation with window {fromBlock: 10^9, toBlock: 10^9 + 600}; SwarmRelay.relay(nhiFeed, a, sig).

Expected: refused (window not readable from the present).

Actual: accepted; lastToBlock = 10^9 + 600; the next real attestation reverts WindowNotAdvancing.

Smallest fix: the same line as the window-lag finding: if (a.toBlock > block.number) revert InvalidWindow(); in _requireQuestion (or the blockhash check, which covers both directions).
Bound leaf, block.number 26,000,700: submit attestation fromBlock 1,000,000,000, toBlock 1,000,000,600, issuedAt now, correct questionHash.

Expected: revert.

Actual: accepted, lastToBlock == 1,000,000,600.

Then submit fromBlock 26,000,000, toBlock 26,000,600: reverts WindowNotAdvancing(26000600, 1000000600).

No call can ever lower lastToBlock.
lowOracleAsker's drift trigger samples the pool only at arm and at ask: two single-transaction pushes five blocks apart make the Treasury pay, contrary to the 'real capital across blocks' claimsrc/OracleAsker.sol:150
File/function: src/OracleAsker.sol arm (line 128-131) and ask (lines 149-153). arm records the block if drift > maxDeviationBps/2 now; ask requires block.number >= armedAt + ARM_DELAY_BLOCKS and drift > trigger now. Nothing observes the pool in between, so the drift does not have to persist.

The contract comment (lines 40-42: 'a pool pushed off-price and back inside one transaction (a flash loan) cannot trigger a paid update; holding it off-price across blocks means fighting arbitrageurs with real capital') and DeploymentConfig.sol:219-220 claim a persistence requirement the code does not have.

Call sequence: block N, one transaction: swap to push the v4 pool 30% from the feed (trigger is 25% with the deployed MAX_DEVIATION_BPS 5000), arm(priceFeed), swap back. Blocks N+1..N+4: pool on price, nothing at risk. Block N+5, one transaction: push, ask(priceFeed, body), swap back.

Expected per the comment: NotNeeded.

Actual: the Treasury's IMD pays the Intake (0.5 IMD in the test). Economics with the constants as committed: moving IMD's full-range pool (~~$2.3M a side, 1% fee) by 25% needs a swap of roughly 12% of the IMD side (~~$270k) and the round trip costs about 1% twice, so each push costs the attacker on the order of $5,000 in fees to make the Treasury spend 0.5 IMD (~$5.5), bounded further by ASK_MIN_INTERVAL and the 10 IMD daily budget.

Not profitable, so this is a false guarantee rather than a drain; reported so the comment is corrected or the check strengthened.

Smallest fix: correct the comment, or require the drift to be observed in at least two distinct blocks before ask (e.g. arm twice, ARM_DELAY_BLOCKS apart, before ask is allowed), accepting that two flash pushes still satisfy it; a true persistence test needs a TWAP read, which the v4 pool's extsload path does not provide. Demonstrated by test/scratch/ArmFlash.t.sol (passes: shows the Treasury paying with driftBps == 0 in every block between arm and ask).
Feed value 0.003 ETH per IMD, cap 5000 bps, pool set to 0.0039 (30% drift), arm, pool set back to 0.003 (driftBps 0); roll +5; pool set to 0.0039, ask, pool set back.

Asker balance falls by exactly 0.5 IMD.

Expected per the documented policy: NotNeeded, because the pool was never off-price across a block boundary.
lowTreasury.fundOracle streams the daily budget without regard to what the asker already holds, and OracleAsker has no way to return IMD: unspent budget accumulates in a contract whose only exit is buyinsrc/Treasury.sol:465
File/function: src/Treasury.sol fundOracle and src/OracleAsker.sol (no withdraw, sweep or return path; the only outflows are _request lines 198-202, which pay the Intake). fundOracle computes want = budget - oracleSpent per UTC day and sends min(want, available) without reading payToken.balanceOf(ORACLE_ASKER). OracleAsker.sol:49-50 claims 'the Treasury's daily budget, which is all this contract can ever hold'; it is not.

Concrete state: budget 10 IMD/day (ORACLE_BUDGET_PER_DAY), a calm market with no drift and NHI asks of 0.5 IMD every ~~18 hours. Anyone calls fundOracle() daily (it is permissionless). After 90 days the asker holds about 840 IMD (~~$9,200 at $10.92); after a year about 3,400 IMD.

That IMD left the Treasury's reserve (it was unwrapped from sIMD, so it also stopped backing imdUSD in reserveValueUsd and redemptionReserve) and cannot come back: no function moves it anywhere but the Intake. If the Intake stops selling the action (priceOf 0 -> NotSold, line 187) or raises its price above ASK_MAX_PRICE (1 IMD -> PriceTooHigh), or INTAKE is replaced (it is a source constant, so a new asker is needed), the whole balance is stranded.

Governance can stop further bleeding only by proposing a zero budget 48 hours later; it cannot recover what is there.

Also, because the balance is unbounded, the per-day spend is bounded by the ask rate (two tracked feeds x 144 asks/day x 0.5 IMD = 144 IMD/day) rather than by the budget, contrary to the 'bounded four ways' claim at lines 48-50; exploiting that needs sustained drift and is not profitable (see the arm finding), so the accumulation and the missing exit are the substantive part.

Smallest fix: in fundOracle top up rather than send: uint256 held = IERC20(underlying).balanceOf(ORACLE_ASKER); if (held >= budget) return 0; want = Math.min(want, budget - held); so the asker never holds more than one day's budget; and/or add a permissionless returnSurplus() on OracleAsker that transfers any balance above the budget back to the vault's Treasury (the Treasury is readable through the vault, and ORACLE_ASKER is created after the vault so it can take the Treasury as a constructor argument).
ParameterizedVault with sIMD collateral, Treasury holding 1,000 sIMD-worth of IMD, Parameters.oracleBudget 10e18, no drift.

Day 1: fundOracle() sends 10 IMD; asker balance 10.

Day 2: fundOracle() sends 10 again (want = 10 - 0); asker balance 20.

Expected per OracleAsker.sol:50: balance never above 10.

Actual: 10 x days, with no function that can move it out except a paid request.
infoSwarmWorkOracle never reads its own staleness: recordRoot and claim accept a root after WORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGE, so 'a stale tally grants nothing new' is not a property of the codesrc/SwarmWorkOracle.sol:109
File/function: src/SwarmWorkOracle.sol recordRoot (lines 108-116) and claim (lines 142-157). recordRoot copies latestValue() into acceptedRoots regardless of isStale(), and claim checks only acceptedRoots[root]; maxAge (WORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGE, 1 day) is read by nothing on the rights path and the vault's earn checks only the price and NHI feeds.

DeploymentConfig.sol:194 ('A stale tally grants nothing NEW and retracts nothing already consumed') and WorkOracleFactory.sol:33 ('Seconds after which an attested tally is stale and grants nothing new') therefore describe a property the code does not have.

Not a theft: a root can only enter through a signed, question-bound attestation, cumulative tallies are monotone and creditedTasks prevents double credit, so an old root can only under-credit (the contract's own argument at lines 70-74). The inconsistency matters for operators reading the constant as a safety bound and for a future change that relies on it.

Concrete: seed root R at t; warp 3 days; isStale() is true; recordRoot() records R; claim(7, 3, 10, [], R) credits 10 x wage = 0.1 imdUSD of rights. Expected per the comments: nothing new is granted.

Actual: rights granted.

Smallest fix: either delete the two claims (and pass maxAge through as what it is, the attestation freshness bound at acceptance), or gate recordRoot on !isStale() if the bound is wanted.
test/scratch/WorkOracleStale.t.sol: SwarmWorkOracle(maxAge 1 day) seeded with a one-leaf root; warp +3 days; isStale() == true; recordRoot() succeeds; claim(agentId 7, accepted 3, cumulative 10, empty proof, root) returns 10 * 0.01e18. Expected per DeploymentConfig.sol:194: no new rights from a stale tally.
lowCHAINLINK_ETH_USD and ATTESTATION_RELAYER are Sepolia addresses at the pinned commit: compiled as is for mainnet, the USD leg reads zero and every feed is inertsrc/DeploymentConfig.sol:21
File: src/DeploymentConfig.sol lines 21 (CHAINLINK_ETH_USD = 0x694AA1769357215DE4FAC081bf1f309aDC325306, the Sepolia ETH/USD aggregator) and 78 (ATTESTATION_RELAYER = 0xe36FFc2688Bf5974f2187AC9086492e372926D40, the Sepolia SwarmRelay). Both are compiled into immutable contracts (UsdPriceFeed.ETH_USD is a constant; every feed's relayer is an immutable) and neither has code on chain 1.

They are not in the task's list of acknowledged placeholders, and docs/MAINNET-RUNBOOK.md section 3 lists both as 'must change', so this is reported for completeness as the concrete failure of the constants the price path reads.

Failing state on mainnet as committed: (1) UsdPriceFeed._ethUsd: staticcall to a codeless address succeeds with empty returndata -> data.length < 160 -> (0,0,0) -> isStale() true -> ParameterizedVault._pricingStale() true -> draw, free-with-debt, barkFor, heel, bite and cash all revert StaleFeed; reserveValueUsd values sIMD at zero.

(2) Every feed's submitAttestation reverts UnauthorizedRelayer for every caller (no account can send from a codeless contract address), so no feed can ever hold a value; OracleAsker.onOracleResult's typed call to the codeless relay reverts too. The vault would be deployed, immutable and permanently halted.

Smallest fix: set the mainnet aggregator (0x5f4eC3Df9cbd43714FE2740f5E3616155c5b8419) and the CREATE2 relay address before compiling, and have the deploy script assert CHAINLINK_ETH_USD.code.length != 0 && IAggregatorV3(CHAINLINK_ETH_USD).decimals() == 8 and ATTESTATION_RELAYER.code.length != 0 on the target chain.

The runbook's section 3 table also still lists ETH_USD_MAX_AGE 1 day, CUT_BPS 3333 and DUTY_BPS 200 as the carry-over values while the code has 2 hours, 1000 and 444.
Deploy UsdPriceFeed on a chain where 0x694AA176... has no code (any chain but Sepolia): latestValue() == (0, 0) and isStale() == true for any IMD/ETH feed value; ParameterizedVault.draw reverts StaleFeed. Deploy PriceFeed where 0xe36FFc26... has no code: submitAttestation from any address reverts UnauthorizedRelayer.
infoSpotFeed's NatSpec says it wants a tighter freshness window than the primary, but SPOT_MAX_AGE equals PRICE_MAX_AGEsrc/SpotFeed.sol:21
SpotFeed.sol:20-22 ('wants a tighter freshness window than a feed whose value is an average') and script/DeployProtocol.s.sol:76 ('SPOT_MAX_AGE is tighter') describe the configuration before docs/PARAMETERS-2026-10-05.md cut PRICE_MAX_AGE from 24 hours to 1 hour; DeploymentConfig.sol:38-39 now sets both to 1 hour, so the spot feed is not tighter.

Consequence of the equal values: tail() (CDPVault.sol:928-930) is min(price, NHI) and ignores the spot feed, which is correct only while SPOT_MAX_AGE >= PRICE_MAX_AGE; if the comment were acted on and SPOT_MAX_AGE lowered, a mark could outlive the spot feed's freshness inside its own tail.

Smallest fix: update the two comments, or include spotFeed.maxAge() in tail() so the invariant does not depend on the deployment values.
Read DeploymentConfig.sol:38-39 (PRICE_MAX_AGE = 1 hours, SPOT_MAX_AGE = 1 hours) against SpotFeed.sol:21. Behavioural: with SPOT_MAX_AGE set to 30 minutes and PRICE_MAX_AGE 1 hour, tail() still returns 1 hour, so a mark taken at t with grace 0 is biteable at t + 55 min after a spot refresh at t + 50 min, which the comment's rationale (point-in-time values need a tighter window) says should not be the design.
reviewed
#595Audit flowClaude8 findings · 3 medium
The review is complete. .imd-findings.json holds eight findings (three medium, three low, two info), each with a concrete reproduction, and the medium asker finding carries a Foundry proof that fails on the current code and passes with the one-line fix. No tracked file was changed; test/scratch/ and the findings file are git-excluded.

Answers to the six questions

Attestation acceptance. Sound as committed. The EIP-712 domain binds chain and feed address, so a PriceFeed attestation cannot land on SpotFeed or NhiFeed; usedRequests is per feed; issuedAt is bounded against maxAge and against the previous value; panel floors 25/15 are enforced; question binding recomputes the exact document hash with the signed window spliced in, and the generator's output matched a live hash in the internal audit. Two gaps, both low: the "ancient window" claim is false because only toBlock > lastToBlock is enforced, so after any update gap a window far in the past is accepted and dated fresh (exploitability depends on whether the plane lets a buyer pin a historical window, which the repo does not show). Stale re-anchor to an arbitrary value needs the attester to sign the pinned question with a wrong figure, which is the stated single-signer trust assumption, not a code defect.

SwarmRelay. Nothing wrong. Funds move only from and to msg.sender, balance deltas isolate donations, the relay approves nothing and never holds a vault allowance, so a caller-supplied malicious vault can only move the caller's own tokens. A refused attestation reverts the whole bundle. The stranded marker-cut case is the known info item from the first audit.

OracleAsker. The main finding: a bought attestation that reaches the feed by hand relay (the repo's own recommended keeper path) makes the Intake callback revert on ReplayedAttestation, so the in-flight slot stays occupied for two hours and both ask and askPaid are refused for that feed (medium, proof attached). Budget drain is bounded by interval, one in flight, price cap and the daily budget. The flash-sandwich claim is false: two single-transaction pool pushes five blocks apart arm and ask without holding the pool, but the attacker pays roughly $1k in swap fees per 5% push to burn 0.5 IMD, so it is a wrong comment rather than a loss path. The pool slot and inversion were checked against live mainnet state: the asker's formula on today's slot0 gives $10.99 per IMD, consistent with the documented market.

Price composition. Units are correct end to end: UsdPriceFeed yields USD per 1e18 raw IMD, SharePriceFeed multiplies by convertToAssets(1e18) (7.95e12 live), and the vault, bite seizure and Treasury valuation all use per-1e18-raw pricing. Staleness propagates through isStale of each leg and _pricingStale reads the composite. A failing leg degrades to zero and halts rather than reverting, as documented. The one launch defect is configuration: CHAINLINK_ETH_USD is the Sepolia aggregator and has no code on mainnet, so a vault from this commit would be permanently stale (medium). ATTESTATION_RELAYER is likewise the Sepolia relay with no mainnet code, which would leave every feed inert (medium). Both are in the runbook's must-change list, but nothing in code or the dry-run asserts the Chainlink one.

Feed lifetimes. tail() is one hour as intended, staleness is measured from signing time, and no path reads a value the feed reports stale. The only "older than intended" case is the ancient-window item above.

SwarmWorkOracle. Double claims are refused by monotone creditedTasks, claims for someone else by isController, and proofs by double-hashed sorted-pair Merkle verification matching the StandardMerkleTree encoding. Two documentation-versus-code items: a root accepted but not recorded before the next attestation is lost forever (low), and WORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGE never limits granting despite two comments saying a stale tally grants nothing ne

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mediumOracleAsker: a bought attestation relayed by hand before the Intake's callback strands the feed's in-flight slot for ASK_TIMEOUT, refusing ask and askPaid for two hourssrc/OracleAsker.sol:224
onOracleResult (Intake-only) clears feedOf[requestId] and the feed's inFlight slot and then forwards the attestation through SwarmRelay.relay to the feed. SwarmFeed.submitAttestation reverts ReplayedAttestation when usedRequests[a.requestId] is already set, and that revert unwinds the whole callback, so the slot-clearing writes are rolled back and the Intake records the request as undelivered.

Nothing else ever clears the slot before block.timestamp >= inFlightAt + ASK_TIMEOUT (2 hours): ask() reverts InFlight at line 140 and askPaid() at line 170 for that feed until then.

The attestation is public the moment it is signed (docs/INTERNAL-AUDIT-2026-10-04.md 3.8, GET /oracle/requests) and SwarmRelay is permissionless, and the repository's own keeper design is to relay an update bundled with the bite it enables (SwarmRelay.relayAndBite), so in normal operation a keeper routinely lands the answer before the writer's complete() does. Every such race leaves the asker unable to buy an update for that feed, with Treasury or caller money, for two hours.

For the price feeds (PRICE_MAX_AGE = SPOT_MAX_AGE = 1 hour) that means a stale feed nobody can refresh through the on-chain route for about an hour; the Treasury's drift ask is blocked too. The runbook calls the asker the automation the protocol runs on ('without it every price update is bought by hand in a browser'); off-chain purchase and hand relay still work, so this is liveness, not loss. Unprivileged trigger, gas only, repeatable per request.

Smallest fix: in onOracleResult, treat an attestation the feed has already consumed as delivered, e.g. if (!SwarmFeed(feed).usedRequests(a.requestId)) SwarmRelay(ATTESTATION_RELAYER).relay(SwarmFeed(feed), a, signature); so the slot clears and Delivered is emitted (verified: the proof passes with exactly this change).

Alternatively let ask/askPaid free a slot whose attestation requestId the feed reports consumed, which needs the Intake id and the attestation id to coincide and is not assumed here.
State: OracleAsker with one kept-alive feed F (maxAge 1 day), F fresh at 0.9e18, asker funded.

Sequence: (1) warp 18h; anyone calls asker.ask(F, body) -> Intake request R, feeds[F].inFlight = R.

(2) The attester signs attestation A (requestId k, figure 0.88e18) for R; a stranger calls SwarmRelay(ATTESTATION_RELAYER).relay(F, A, sig) -> F.latestValue() == 0.88e18, usedRequests[k] = true.

(3) The Intake writer calls complete(R, abi.encode(R, A, sig)) -> asker.onOracleResult -> relay -> F reverts ReplayedAttestation -> callback fails.

Expected: feeds[F].inFlight == 0 (the request was served; the feed holds its answer).

Actual: feeds[F].inFlight == R, inFlightAt unchanged; one hour later a borrower's askPaid(F, body, 0.5e18) reverts InFlight(R) and the Treasury's ask(F, body) reverts InFlight(R) until 2 hours after step 1.

Proof test: test/scratch/AskerStuckInFlight.t.sol fails on this code ('a served request must not remain in flight') and passes with the one-line fix above.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol"; import {SwarmFeed} from "src/SwarmFeed.sol"; import {SwarmRelay} from "src/SwarmRelay.sol"; import {OracleAsker} from "src/OracleAsker.sol"; import {MockIMD} from "src/MockIMD.sol"; import {IIntake} from "src/interfaces/IIntake.sol"; import {APPROVED_OPERATOR, INTAKE, ORACLE_ACTION, ATTESTATION_RELAYER} from "src/DeploymentConfig.sol"; /// @dev A feed leaf that pins no question but takes the relay as its relayer, so the test can sign as /// the attester. The asker's bookkeeping under test does not depend on the question policy. contract ScratchFeed is SwarmFeed { constructor(address attester_, address relayer_) SwarmFeed(attester_, relayer_, 1, 3, 1 days, 2000) {} function seed(uint256 value) external { _accept(value, uint64(block.timestamp)); } } /// @dev The Intake as PR #66 behaves: collects the price, records the callback, and on `complete` /// calls the target once with a fixed stipend, recording rather than requiring the outcome. contract ScratchIntake { mapping(bytes32 => mapping(address => uint256)) public priceOf; mapping(bytes32 => IIntake.Callback) public callbackOf; uint256 public nonce; function setPrice(bytes32 action, address asset, uint256 amount) external { priceOf[action][asset] = amount; } function request(bytes32 action, bytes calldata, IIntake.Callback calldata callback, address asset, uint256 amount) external payable returns (bytes32 requestId) { uint256 price = priceOf[action][asset]; require(price != 0 && amount >= price, "not sold"); IERC20(asset).transferFrom(msg.sender, address(this), amount); requestId = keccak256(abi.encode(block.chainid, address(this), ++nonce)); callbackOf[requestId] = callback; } function complete(bytes32 requestId, bytes calldata args) external returns (bool delivered) { IIntake.Callback memory c = callbackOf[requestId]; (delivered,) = c.target.call{gas: 200_000}(bytes.concat(c.selector, args)); } } /// @notice Finding: a bought attestation that reaches the feed by any route other than the Intake's /// callback (a keeper relaying it by hand, bundled with a bite) makes the callback revert on /// ReplayedAttestation, so the asker never clears its in-flight slot: `ask` and `askPaid` are both /// refused for that feed for ASK_TIMEOUT (two hours) although the feed is fresh and the request /// was served. Fails on the current code; passes once `onOracleResult` treats an attestation the /// feed has already consumed (`usedRequests`) as delivered and frees the slot. contract AskerStuckInFlightTest is Test { uint256 private constant ATTESTER_KEY = 0xA11CE; address private constant STRANGER = address(0x5757); address private constant BORROWER = address(0xB0B); uint256 private constant PRICE = 0.5 ether; bytes private constant BODY = '{"question":"network health"}'; MockIMD private imd; ScratchIntake private intake; ScratchFeed private feed; OracleAsker private asker; function setUp() public { vm.chainId(11155111); vm.warp(10 days); vm.roll(1_000); vm.etch(ATTESTATION_RELAYER, address(new SwarmRelay()).code); vm.etch(INTAKE, address(new ScratchIntake()).code); intake = ScratchIntake(INTAKE); imd = new MockIMD(); intake.setPrice(ORACLE_ACTION, address(imd), PRICE); feed = new ScratchFeed(vm.addr(ATTESTER_KEY), ATTESTATION_RELAYER); address[] memory feeds = new address[](1); feeds[0] = address(feed); bytes32[] memory hashes = new bytes32[](1); hashes[0] = keccak256(BODY); bool[] memory tracks = new bool[](1); bool[] memory keepAlive = new bool[](1); keepAlive[0] = true; asker = new OracleAsker(IERC20(address(imd)), feeds, hashes, tracks, keepAlive); vm.startPrank(APPROVED_OPERATOR); imd.mint(address(asker), 100 ether); imd.mint(BORROWER, 10 ether); vm.stopPrank(); feed.seed(0.9 ether); } function test_aHandRelayedAnswerMustNotLeaveTheAskerInFlightForTwoHours() public { // The Treasury-paid ask: the kept-alive feed is 75% of the way to stale. vm.warp(block.timestamp + 18 hours); bytes32 id = asker.ask(address(feed), BODY); // The answer is public the moment it is signed. A keeper (or anyone) relays it by hand, // bundled with whatever it enables, before the Intake's writer calls back. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(keccak256("served"), 0.88 ether); bytes memory sig = _sign(a); vm.prank(STRANGER); SwarmRelay(ATTESTATION_RELAYER).relay(feed, a, sig); (uint256 value,) = feed.latestValue(); assertEq(value, 0.88 ether, "the feed holds the bought answer"); assertFalse(feed.isStale()); // The writer's callback: on the current code the relay reverts ReplayedAttestation and the // asker's state is rolled back, so the request it paid for and that was served stays in flight. intake.complete(id, abi.encode(id, a, sig)); (,,,,, uint64 inFlightAt, bytes32 inFlight) = asker.feeds(address(feed)); // EXPECTED: the asker recognises that the feed consumed the attestation and frees the slot. // ACTUAL: the slot stays occupied until ASK_TIMEOUT (two hours). assertEq(inFlight, bytes32(0), "a served request must not remain in flight"); assertEq(inFlightAt, 0, "a served request must not remain in flight"); // And so a borrower who wants a fresh answer for their own IMD an hour later can buy one. vm.warp(block.timestamp + 1 hours); vm.startPrank(BORROWER); imd.approve(address(asker), PRICE); asker.askPaid(address(feed), BODY, PRICE); vm.stopPrank(); } function _attestation(bytes32 id, uint256 figure) private view returns (SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) { a.requestId = id; a.chainId = 1; a.questionHash = keccak256("q"); a.answerType = 3; a.answer = abi.encode(figure); a.figure = figure; a.fromBlock = 100; a.toBlock = 200; a.blockHash = keccak256("b"); a.panelJobId = keccak256("panel"); a.panelSize = 60; a.quorum = 20; a.agreed = 40; a.issuedAt = uint64(block.timestamp); a.expiresAt = uint64(block.timestamp + 1 hours); } function _sign(SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) private view returns (bytes memory) { bytes32 body = keccak256( bytes.concat( abi.encode( feed.ATTESTATION_TYPEHASH(), a.requestId, a.chainId, a.questionHash, a.answerType, keccak256(a.answer), a.figure ), abi.encode( a.fromBlock, a.toBlock, a.blockHash, a.panelJobId, a.panelSize, a.quorum, a.agreed, a.issuedAt, a.expiresAt ) ) ); (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) = vm.sign(ATTESTER_KEY, keccak256(abi.encodePacked("\x19\x01", feed.DOMAIN_SEPARATOR(), body))); return abi.encodePacked(r, s, v); } }
mediumCHAINLINK_ETH_USD is the Sepolia aggregator; on Ethereum mainnet that address has no code, so UsdPriceFeed reads stale forever and a ParameterizedVault deployed from this commit can never price, draw,src/DeploymentConfig.sol:21
UsdPriceFeed.ETH_USD is a compile-time constant (UsdPriceFeed.sol:28) and ParameterizedVault creates its UsdPriceFeed and SharePriceFeed in its constructor, so the aggregator address is baked into every immutable price path. The committed value 0x694AA1769357215DE4FAC081bf1f309aDC325306 is Chainlink's Sepolia ETH/USD.

Checked today against mainnet: cast code 0x694AA176... returns 0x (no code) while the real mainnet ETH/USD aggregator 0x5f4eC3Df9cbd43714FE2740f5E3616155c5b8419 has code and answers latestRoundData (272714880000, 8 decimals).

A staticcall to a code-less address succeeds with empty return data, so _ethUsd() returns (0,0,0) at UsdPriceFeed.sol:82, latestValue() is (0,0), isStale() is true, and ParameterizedVault._pricingStale() is permanently true: draw, free-with-debt, bark, heel, bite, cash and earn-with-finite-ceiling all revert StaleFeed, and Treasury.reserveValueOf prices IMD/sIMD at zero. The constructor accepts this silently (UsdPriceFeed only checks the IMD leg's code).

This is not one of the four placeholders the task excludes (INTAKE, ORACLE_ASKER, TREASURY_FACTORY, WORK_ORACLE_FACTORY); docs/MAINNET-RUNBOOK.md 3 lists it under 'must change for mainnet', but nothing in code or the deploy dry-run asserts it, unlike the CREATE2 constants. Impact is a dead deployment rather than a loss: lock() still works (it reads _priceOrZero), so depositors could lock sIMD into a vault that can never lend; debt-free collateral stays withdrawable via free().

Smallest fix: set the constant to the mainnet aggregator before compiling for mainnet, and have UsdPriceFeed's constructor revert if address(ETH_USD).code.length == 0 (or if _ethUsd() returns zero) so a wrong chain fails at deploy instead of after.
Deploy ParameterizedVault from this commit on chain id 1 (or any chain where 0x694AA1769357215DE4FAC081bf1f309aDC325306 has no code; cast code on mainnet returns 0x).

Seed the three swarm feeds with valid attestations.

Expected: vault.usdPriceFeed().isStale() == false once the IMD/ETH leg is fresh, and draw() succeeds for a healthy position.

Actual: usdPriceFeed.latestValue() == (0,0), isStale() == true for every block, vault.collateralPriceFeed().isStale() == true, and draw(1e18) reverts StaleFeed regardless of feed freshness.

In a unit test: construct ParameterizedVault with fresh TestSwarmFeeds and WITHOUT etching an aggregator at CHAINLINK_ETH_USD, then call draw -> StaleFeed.
mediumATTESTATION_RELAYER is the Sepolia SwarmRelay; on mainnet the address has no code, so every PriceFeed/NhiFeed/SpotFeed/SwarmWorkOracle compiled from this commit is permanently inert and OracleAsker desrc/DeploymentConfig.sol:78
All four production feeds pass ATTESTATION_RELAYER as the sole relayer (SwarmFeed.sol:170 if (relayer != address(0) && msg.sender != relayer) revert UnauthorizedRelayer();), and OracleAsker.onOracleResult calls SwarmRelay(ATTESTATION_RELAYER).relay (OracleAsker.sol:224). The committed address 0xe36FFc2688Bf5974f2187AC9086492e372926D40 is the Sepolia relay; cast code on mainnet today returns 0x.

A contract address with no code and no known key can never be msg.sender, so no attestation can ever be submitted to a mainnet feed built from this commit, and the asker's high-level call to a code-less address reverts (extcodesize check), so every Intake delivery fails.

The feeds, the vault and the work oracle are immutable, so the deployment is unrecoverable. docs/MAINNET-RUNBOOK.md 6 plans to replace this with a CREATE2 address and to assert it in a dry-run, which would catch it if followed; the code itself does not: SwarmFeed's constructor accepts any nonzero relayer. Reachability requires deploying the pinned commit on mainnet without that edit; impact is a dead deployment (users could lock collateral into it, retrievable via free()).

Smallest fix: write the mainnet relay address before compiling, and since the design states the relayer is always a contract (DeploymentConfig.sol:66), revert in SwarmFeed's constructor when relayer_ != 0 && relayer_.code.length == 0 so a chain mismatch fails at deploy.
On chain id 1 at this commit: new PriceFeed(1 hours, 1000); then for any validly signed attestation A, submitAttestation(A, sig) from any EOA reverts UnauthorizedRelayer, and cast code 0xe36FFc2688Bf5974f2187AC9086492e372926D40 --rpc-url <mainnet> is 0x, so no account can satisfy msg.sender == relayer.

Expected: a relay contract exists at the pinned address and forwards.

Actual: feed.isStale() is true forever; OracleAsker.onOracleResult reverts for every delivery.

Unit shape: do not etch code at ATTESTATION_RELAYER, deploy PriceFeed, call SwarmRelay(ATTESTATION_RELAYER).relay(...) -> revert (call to non-contract).
lowOracleAsker NatSpec claims a flash push-and-restore cannot trigger a paid update; two single-transaction pushes five blocks apart arm and ask without ever holding the pool off-pricesrc/OracleAsker.sol:40
arm() reads driftBps() (the v4 pool's slot0 via extsload) in the calling transaction and records armedAt; ask() requires only that block.number is in [armedAt + ARM_DELAY_BLOCKS, armedAt + ARM_WINDOW_BLOCKS] and that driftBps() exceeds the trigger again in ITS calling transaction.

Neither reading is tied to a block in which the pool was not touched, so a contract that swaps the pool more than maxDeviationBps/2 away, calls arm, and swaps back in one transaction arms the feed with zero drift visible afterwards, and repeats the same sandwich around ask five blocks later; the Treasury's IMD is spent while the pool was never off-price across a block boundary.

The comment's claim ('holding it off-price across blocks means fighting arbitrageurs with real capital') is therefore false; what actually bounds abuse is cost, not mechanism: ASK_MIN_INTERVAL (10 min), one request in flight per feed, ASK_MAX_PRICE (1 IMD), the Treasury's daily budget (10 IMD, hard cap 100) and two round trips of swap fees in a ~$2.3M-a-side 1% pool (roughly $1k per 5% push), so the attacker pays far more than the ~0.5 IMD per ask they burn.

Not a loss path with the constants as committed; a false security claim.

Smallest fix: correct the NatSpec and DeploymentConfig.sol:219-220, or if the property is wanted, sample drift from a value the attacker cannot set in the same transaction (e.g. require the pool's sqrtPrice recorded at arm to still be within the band at ask AND take the ask reading from a block the caller's transaction did not move, which needs a v4 observation or a two-step confirm in a separate block).
Setup: OracleAsker with a pool-tracking feed F at 1e15 wei/IMD (maxDeviationBps 1000, trigger 500), pool at 1e15, asker funded.

Attacker contract S: tx1 at block N: S.set(pool, +6%), asker.arm(F), S.set(pool, back) -> Armed emitted; asker.driftBps(F) == 0 after the tx. tx2 at block N+5: S.set(pool, +6%), asker.ask(F, body), S.set(pool, back) -> succeeds, asker's IMD falls by the Intake price (0.5e18), driftBps(F) == 0 after the tx.

Expected per the comment: ask reverts NotNeeded/NotArmed because the drift was not held across blocks.

Actual: the Treasury pays.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol test_flashSandwichArmsAndAsksWithoutHoldingThePool (passes, i.e. the payment happens).
lowSwarmFeed claims an ancient window cannot be answered by a fresh signature; _requireQuestion only requires toBlock to exceed the last accepted one, so after any gap a window arbitrarily far in the passrc/SwarmFeed.sol:240
Lines 232-233 and README.md 97-100 state that 'toBlock must advance, so a freshly signed attestation cannot answer over an ANCIENT window in which the price was whatever the buyer needed it to be'. The check at line 240 compares a.toBlock only with lastToBlock; nothing relates toBlock to block.number or issuedAt.

With on-demand updates the feed is expected to sit un-updated for long stretches (PRICE_MAX_AGE is one hour and 'between updates price actions pause'), so lastToBlock is routinely hours or days behind the head. Any window ending after lastToBlock and before the head is therefore acceptable, and the value is stored with _updatedAt = issuedAt, so a price observed days ago reads as fresh for maxAge.

Whether a buyer can choose a historical window depends on the control plane: the committed payloads use window:{hours:N} and the plane resolves the blocks, and nothing in this repository shows a requester pinning fromBlock/toBlock, so this is reported as a false claim with an unverified exploit precondition rather than as a priced attack.

The spot question is a single-block read at toBlock, so a selectable toBlock would let a buyer choose the one block in the gap where the pool spiked (or dipped) and have the vault treat it as the current spot. On mainnet the consumer and data chains coincide (ATTESTATION_CHAIN_ID = 1), so the bound is cheap to enforce.

Smallest fix: when attestationChainId == block.chainid, also require a.toBlock <= block.number and block.number - a.toBlock <= some lag bound (e.g. maxSpan, or maxAge / 12 seconds); otherwise correct the comment and README.
Feed with PriceFeed's prefix and spans (300..1200), lastToBlock == 0 (or any old value), block.number == 26,300,000.

Attestation: fromBlock 26,000,000, toBlock 26,000,600 (about six weeks of blocks earlier), questionHash = expectedQuestionHash(26,000,000, 26,000,600), figure 1, issuedAt = now, signed by the attester.

Expected per the NatSpec: refused as an ancient window.

Actual: accepted; latestValue() == (1, now), isStale() == false, lastToBlock == 26,000,600 while block.number - lastToBlock == 299,400.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol test_anAncientWindowIsAcceptedWhenTheFeedHasNoNewerOne.
lowSwarmWorkOracle: a root the feed accepted but nobody recorded before the next attestation landed is unrecoverable, contradicting 'every tally root this feed has accepted'src/SwarmWorkOracle.sol:109
acceptedRoots is filled only by the permissionless recordRoot(), which copies the CURRENT latestValue(). SwarmFeed._accept overwrites _value on every accepted attestation, so if two attestations land before anyone calls recordRoot (two windows 5,000-9,000 blocks apart within a day, or a day where no keeper ran recordRoot), the earlier root is gone: it was 'accepted' by the feed (AttestationAccepted emitted, lastToBlock advanced) but can never be claimed against.

The docstring at line 69-74 promises the set holds 'every tally root this feed has accepted' and that absence from the newest tree is harmless because an older root stays provable; that is only true if recordRoot was called between every pair of attestations. An agent present only in the lost day's tree (idle afterwards) loses that credit until it next appears in a later tree; one that never works again loses it permanently.

The vault's earn and the asker do not call recordRoot. Not attacker-driven (attestations cost 0.5 IMD and must advance the window), so low.

Smallest fix: make SwarmFeed._accept virtual and override it in SwarmWorkOracle to set acceptedRoots[bytes32(value)] = true (and emit RootAccepted) at acceptance time, leaving recordRoot as a no-op compatibility path; or have the keeper bundle recordRoot with the relay.
SwarmWorkOracle W (via WorkOracleFactory).

Attestation 1 with figure uint256(day1Root) is accepted (W.latestValue() == day1Root).

Before anyone calls recordRoot, attestation 2 with figure uint256(day2Root) is accepted. recordRoot() -> acceptedRoots[day2Root] == true, acceptedRoots[day1Root] == false forever; claim(agentIdle, ..., proof, day1Root) reverts UnknownRoot.

Expected: both accepted roots claimable.

Reproduced in test/scratch/WorkOracleLeads.t.sol test_aRootNobodyRecordedBeforeTheNextAttestationIsLost.
infoWORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGE has no effect: a tally root stays claimable after the work oracle is stale, contradicting 'a stale tally grants nothing NEW'src/SwarmWorkOracle.sol:146
DeploymentConfig.sol:192-195 and WorkOracleFactory.sol:33 ('Seconds after which an attested tally is stale and grants nothing new') describe WORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGE as a lifetime for the tally. Neither recordRoot nor claim consults isStale()/maxAge, CDPVault.earn checks only the price and NHI feeds, and acceptedRoots is a permanent set by design (line 70-74).

So maxAge on the work oracle only gates how old an attestation may be when submitted (SwarmFeed line 177) and never limits granting. Economically this is safe (cumulative is monotone, so an old root under-credits), but the constant and both comments promise a property the code does not have; an operator reading them would expect a stale root to stop minting new rights.

Smallest fix: correct the two comments (or, if the lifetime is wanted, record acceptance time per root and refuse claims against roots older than maxAge).
Accept root R, recordRoot(); warp 30 days (isStale() == true).

Controller of agent A calls claim(A, 10, 10, proof, R).

Expected per the comments: nothing new granted.

Actual: returns 10 * WAGE_WAD and mintingRights rises.

Reproduced in test/scratch/WorkOracleLeads.t.sol test_aStaleTallyStillGrantsNewRights.
infoDelivery gas headroom is asserted on a prefix-less test feed; a first delivery into a production-sized bound feed costs ~150k of the Intake's 200k stipendtest/OracleAsker.t.sol:212
The suite's 'leaves headroom under the stipend' assertion and the runbook's 'measured 76,807' (docs/MAINNET-RUNBOOK.md:40) are taken with ConfigurableSwarmFeed, which pins no question and already holds a value. A production feed rebuilds a ~3.5 KB question document twice per submission (questionPolicy() + expectedQuestionHash) and its first attestation writes four cold storage slots (usedRequests, lastToBlock, _value, _updatedAt/_hasValue).

Measured here with a leaf carrying PriceFeed's exact prefix and spans: the first Intake delivery through OracleAsker.onOracleResult -> SwarmRelay.relay -> submitAttestation uses 150,470 gas (test/scratch/Leads.t.sol test_firstDeliveryGasIntoBoundFeed). That still fits 200,000, so no failure with the mock, but the margin is ~25%, not ~62%, and docs/ONCHAIN-INTAKE-INTEGRATION.md notes callbackGas is owner-settable upstream.

If the stipend is ever lowered to around 150k, first deliveries (and deliveries after a long gap, when slots are cold again only for usedRequests) fail and fall back to hand relay.

Smallest fix: measure the asserted figure against a bound leaf with a cold first value and state the real margin in the runbook.
Deploy a SwarmFeed leaf whose questionPolicy returns PriceFeed.QUESTION_PREFIX with spans (300, 1200), unseeded; OracleAsker.askPaid for it; Intake.complete with a valid attestation under a 200,000 gas stipend.

Expected per the test/runbook: roughly 77k used.

Actual: 150,470 used (delivered).

The existing assertion assertLt(intake.lastCallbackGasUsed(), 150_000) would fail against this feed.
reviewed
#528Audit economicsClaude8 findings · 1 high
The review is complete and the findings file is written. Here is the standalone summary.

Outcome. .imd-findings.json holds 8 findings: 1 high (with a Foundry proof that fails on the committed code and passes against a patched copy of SwarmFeed), 1 medium, 4 low, 2 info. Snippets and lines were verified against the tree. Scratch tests live under test/scratch/.

Answers to the six questions

Attestation acceptance. Domain (name, version 2, chainid, feed address), replay via usedRequests, issuedAt against maxAge, panel floors, answerType and chainId checks, and the prefix-spliced question hash are all correct, so a different question, chain or feed cannot be accepted. The gap is the window: _requireQuestion only requires toBlock to exceed the last accepted one. Nothing ties the window to the chain head or to the signed blockHash, and the request schema lets a buyer pin an explicit window. With on-demand updates the feed is stale most of the time, the deviation bound lifts, and a freshly signed answer over any past window since the last update becomes the live price for both primary and spot. That is the high finding at src/SwarmFeed.sol:240. Note also that MIN_AGREED is an absolute count, so 15 of a 100-member panel passes; this is a deliberate constant, not reported.

SwarmRelay. No defect. relayAndBite pulls exactly debtToRepay, measures the payout as a delta, and asserts both balances return to their starting values, so a caller cannot strand or sweep funds or bypass a vault check. Front-running a bundle is possible but is the known OEV issue, not a bug.

OracleAsker. The pool read (slot 6, 160-bit mask, inversion) and the 200k stipend hold (prefix hashing costs about 17k gas on top of the measured 77k). Three findings: a refused delivery leaves the in-flight slot occupied for two hours and blocks askPaid (low); two atomic flash manipulations five blocks apart satisfy arm-then-ask, contradicting the NatSpec, though unprofitable at committed constants (low); and Treasury.fundOracle adds a full daily budget regardless of the asker's balance, so reserve IMD accumulates unrecoverably (medium).

Price composition. Units are right end to end: wei per 1e18 IMD times Chainlink over 10^decimals gives USD per 1e18 raw IMD, and convertToAssets(1e18) makes the share leg decimal-agnostic. Staleness propagates through isStale on both legs and the vault checks it before every priced action. A dead Chainlink leg halts rather than misprices. The one defect is that CHAINLINK_ETH_USD is still the Sepolia aggregator (low, tracked in the runbook).

Feed lifetimes. 1h/1h/1d and tail() of 1h are wired correctly. The vault can act on an older observation only through the window-lag issue in question 1.

SwarmWorkOracle. Rights accounting is sound: cumulative is monotone per agent, the controller check gates claims, and consumption is vault-only and bounded. maxAge has no effect on recordRoot or claim despite two comments saying a stale tally grants nothing new (low).

Comment and NatSpec claims the code does not have

src/SwarmFeed.sol:232-233: an ancient window cannot be answered freshly. Only windows older than the last accepted one are refused.

src/OracleAsker.sol:40-42 and src/DeploymentConfig.sol:219-220: a flash manipulation cannot trigger a paid update.

src/OracleAsker.sol:48-50: the daily budget is all the asker can ever hold.

src/OracleAsker.sol:38-39: the feed is never asked for a jump it cannot take.

src/WorkOracleFactory.sol:33 and src/DeploymentConfig.sol:194: a stale tally grants nothing new.

src/PriceFeed.sol:31, src/SpotFeed.sol:37, src/NhiFeed.sol:30: prefixes derived from files that are not in the tree. The work-root prefix does regenerate from its payload.

src/SpotFeed.sol:21-22: a tighter spot lifetime. Both are now one hour.

Outside scope but noticed: CDPVault bite and cut comments still describe a 10% bonus.

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highSwarmFeed accepts a freshly signed attestation over any window newer than the last one, however far behind the chain head, so a buyer picks the historical price the vault will act onsrc/SwarmFeed.sol:240
SwarmFeed._requireQuestion binds the question document and requires the window span to be inside the leaf's bounds and a.toBlock to exceed lastToBlock. Nothing relates a.toBlock to the current block (or to a.blockHash), and freshness is measured from the signing time a.issuedAt only. On mainnet the consumer chain is the data chain (ATTESTATION_CHAIN_ID = 1), so the feed could check the window against the chain it runs on, but does not.

The request schema lets a buyer pin an explicit window (oracle/nhi-composite-quote.json and oracle/vwap-oracle-quote.json carry literal fromBlock/toBlock; oracle/check-answer.mjs requires the answer's window to equal the brief's), so a buyer chooses any window that closes after the last accepted toBlock, has it attested now, and the feed publishes it dated now.

The NatSpec at SwarmFeed.sol:232-233 claims 'toBlock must advance, so a freshly signed attestation cannot answer over an ANCIENT window in which the price was whatever the buyer needed it to be'; the code only refuses windows older than the last accepted one, which with on-demand updates (PRICE_MAX_AGE 1 hour, no clock refresh, OracleAsker.sol:33-36) can itself be days old.

The deviation bound does not help: it lifts once the feed is stale (the normal state between updates) and is 5000 bps in both deploy scripts (script/DeployGoverned.s.sol:38) even while fresh. The same holds for SpotFeed, whose answer is the pool state at the window's last block, so primary and spot can both be bought for windows ending at the same past block and pass the SKEW_BPS agreement check.

Who loses: with a cherry-picked HIGH, an attacker locks sIMD and draws against a price above market (a window +42% above market leaves the position below the 120% liquidation payout at the true price, i.e. bad debt; anything less still books an under-collateralised loan the protocol carries); with a cherry-picked LOW and NHI <= 0.60 (grace 0) an attacker marks and bites healthy positions in one transaction, seizing 1.2 x debt / lowPrice of collateral.

Cost: two attestations, 1 IMD. IMD's market has moved 30-45% in a day (docs/PARAMETERS-2026-10-05.md), so such windows recur.

Smallest fix: when block.chainid == attestationChainId require a.blockHash != 0 && blockhash(a.toBlock) == a.blockHash (binds the window to the canonical chain and to the last 256 blocks, about 51 minutes, which covers the measured 2m10s attestation latency); or at minimum require block.number - a.toBlock <= a small lag bound. Either must preserve the Sepolia case where the data chain differs from the consumer chain.
State: a question-pinned feed with PriceFeed's span policy (300..1200), maxAge 1 hour, maxDeviationBps 5000, chainid 1.

At block 26_000_600 relay an honest attestation for window [26_000_000, 26_000_590], figure 1e18: accepted.

Three days pass with no update (block 26_022_200): the feed is stale.

Relay a freshly signed attestation for window [26_000_591, 26_000_891] (closed 21,309 blocks ago, immediately after the last accepted window), figure 2e18, issuedAt = now. Expected: refused, the window lags the head by days and the feed cannot vouch for it. Actual: accepted, latestValue() = 2e18 dated now, isStale() = false, and the vault prices collateral at 2x. test/scratch/WindowLag.t.sol fails on the committed code with 'next call did not revert as expected' and passes once the window is bound to the chain head.

proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {SwarmFeed} from "src/SwarmFeed.sol"; /// @dev A question-pinned leaf with PriceFeed's span policy (300..1200 blocks) and the shipped /// deployment bounds (maxAge 1 hour, maxDeviationBps 5000). The attester is a test key because the /// shipped artifacts pin the oracle service's key; the check under test lives in SwarmFeed. contract LagFeed is SwarmFeed { constructor(address attester_) SwarmFeed(attester_, address(0), 1, 3, 1 hours, 5000) {} function questionPolicy() internal pure override returns (bytes memory, uint64, uint64) { return ('{"answerType":"uint256","chainId":1,"question":"q","v":1,"window":{"fromBlock":', 300, 1200); } } /// @notice On a same-chain deployment (data chain == consumer chain == mainnet), an attestation that /// answers the pinned question over a window that closed DAYS before the current block is accepted, /// provided only that its toBlock is later than the last accepted one. A buyer therefore picks, from /// every block since the last update, the window whose price suits them, has it freshly signed, and /// the vault treats it as a fresh price. Expected: a window that lags the chain head by far more than /// the feed's lifetime is refused. Actual: it is accepted and becomes the live price. contract WindowLagTest is Test { uint256 private constant ATTESTER_KEY = 0xA11CE; LagFeed private feed; function setUp() public { vm.chainId(1); // mainnet: the feed runs on the chain the question is asked about vm.warp(1_800_000_000); vm.roll(26_000_600); feed = new LagFeed(vm.addr(ATTESTER_KEY)); } function test_aWindowThatClosedDaysAgoIsRefusedWhenFreshlySigned() public { // Honest update: window closed ten blocks ago, signed now. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory first = _attestation(1 ether, 26_000_000, 26_000_590); feed.submitAttestation(first, _sign(first)); (uint256 value,) = feed.latestValue(); assertEq(value, 1 ether); // Three days pass with no update (the price feed is refreshed on demand, not on a clock). vm.warp(block.timestamp + 3 days); vm.roll(block.number + 21_600); assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "a quiet feed is stale between updates"); // A window that closed three days ago, immediately after the last accepted one, answering the // pinned question exactly, freshly signed: the price the buyer wanted. SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory cherry = _attestation(2 ether, 26_000_591, 26_000_891); bytes memory sig = _sign(cherry); assertGt(block.number - cherry.toBlock, 20_000, "the window lags the head by days"); vm.expectRevert(); feed.submitAttestation(cherry, sig); (value,) = feed.latestValue(); assertEq(value, 1 ether, "a days-old window must not become the live price"); } function _attestation(uint256 figure, uint64 fromBlock, uint64 toBlock) private view returns (SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) { a.requestId = keccak256(abi.encode(figure, fromBlock, toBlock)); a.chainId = 1; a.questionHash = feed.expectedQuestionHash(fromBlock, toBlock); a.answerType = 3; a.answer = abi.encode(figure); a.figure = figure; a.fromBlock = fromBlock; a.toBlock = toBlock; // What the plane signs: the real hash of the window's closing block. Inside the EVM's 256-block // horizon that is what blockhash returns; beyond it the chain can no longer vouch for it. a.blockHash = blockhash(toBlock) != bytes32(0) ? blockhash(toBlock) : keccak256(abi.encode(toBlock)); a.panelJobId = keccak256("panel"); a.panelSize = 60; a.quorum = 20; a.agreed = 40; a.issuedAt = uint64(block.timestamp); a.expiresAt = uint64(block.timestamp + 1 hours); } function _sign(SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) private view returns (bytes memory) { bytes32 body = keccak256( bytes.concat( abi.encode( feed.ATTESTATION_TYPEHASH(), a.requestId, a.chainId, a.questionHash, a.answerType, keccak256(a.answer), a.figure ), abi.encode( a.fromBlock, a.toBlock, a.blockHash, a.panelJobId, a.panelSize, a.quorum, a.agreed, a.issuedAt, a.expiresAt ) ) ); (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) = vm.sign(ATTESTER_KEY, keccak256(abi.encodePacked("\x19\x01", feed.DOMAIN_SEPARATOR(), body))); return abi.encodePacked(r, s, v); } }
mediumTreasury.fundOracle streams the full daily budget regardless of what the asker already holds, so reserve IMD accumulates unrecoverably in OracleAskersrc/Treasury.sol:465
fundOracle computes want = budget - oracleSpent for the current UTC day and sends it whenever the Treasury can withdraw that much IMD from its sIMD. It never reads OracleAsker's balance, so each day adds a full budget on top of whatever is still unspent. OracleAsker has no withdraw path: IMD only leaves it as Intake payments that pass the need checks.

The asker's NatSpec (src/OracleAsker.sol:48-50) states spending is bounded by 'the Treasury's daily budget, which is all this contract can ever hold', which the Treasury side does not enforce.

With ORACLE_BUDGET_PER_DAY = 10 IMD (about $109 at $10.92) and the protocol's own estimate of ~~$2,100 a year of Treasury-paid updates (docs/PARAMETERS-2026-10-05.md, 'Analysis: the stability fee'), roughly 3,450 IMD a year (~~$37k) moves out of the reserve that backs imdUSD (reserveValueUsd and redemptionReserve both read the Treasury's sIMD) into an address that counts for nothing and cannot be recovered.

Governance can only stop the stream going forward (proposeOracleBudget, 48 hours). The existing test test_sendsIMDUnwrappedFromSharesUpToTheDailyBudget asserts the second day's full send while the asker still holds the first.

Smallest fix: top up rather than add, e.g. uint256 held = IERC20(IMD).balanceOf(ORACLE_ASKER); want = min(budget - oracleSpent, budget > held ? budget - held : 0) (for a share collateral read the asset's balance, which is what the asker holds).
State: ParameterizedVault with sIMD collateral, Treasury holding 50 IMD worth of shares deposited in an earlier block, ORACLE_ASKER with code, oracleBudget = 10e18, nothing asked.

Day 1: anyone calls fundOracle(): sends 10e18, asker balance 10e18.

Day 2 (warp +1 day), still nothing asked: fundOracle() again.

Expected per OracleAsker's documented bound: 0, the asker already holds a day's budget.

Actual: sends another 10e18, asker balance 20e18; after N quiet days the asker holds 10e18 x N while the reserve has lost the same amount.
lowOracleAsker: a delivery the feed refuses keeps the feed's in-flight slot for ASK_TIMEOUT, blocking askPaid and ask for two hourssrc/OracleAsker.sol:224
onOracleResult clears f.inFlight and feedOf before relaying, but the relay is a plain external call: if SwarmFeed.submitAttestation reverts (ExcessDeviation while fresh, WindowNotAdvancing because someone relayed a later window by hand first, StaleAttestation, a malformed signature) the whole callback reverts, the Intake records the failure, and the asker's state is rolled back to in-flight. ask and askPaid both revert InFlight until inFlightAt + ASK_TIMEOUT (2 hours).

The documented promise (OracleAsker.sol:163-166) is that a paid ask 'waits behind one that is already on its way', not behind one that has already been answered and refused. The borrower's on-chain route to a fresh price is therefore closed for two hours each time this happens; relaying by hand through SwarmRelay still works.

Related claim: OracleAsker.sol:38-39 says the trigger is 'narrower than the cap so the feed is never asked to make a jump it cannot take', but the drift at ask time is unbounded above the trigger, so a 60% drift against a fresh feed with a 50% cap buys an attestation the feed refuses, spends the 0.5 IMD, and holds the slot for the timeout.

Smallest fix: in onOracleResult wrap the relay in try/catch so a refused attestation frees the slot (emit a DeliveryFailed event; the attestation stays public for hand relay), and when a timed-out request is replaced keep accepting its late delivery instead of deleting feedOf.
State: OracleAsker tracking a fresh price feed, Intake price 0.5 IMD, borrower holding IMD.

Borrower calls askPaid(feed, body, 0.5e18): request id R in flight.

The Intake completes R with an attestation the feed refuses (e.g. an invalid signature, or a window no later than lastToBlock): the callback reverts, complete() reports not delivered.

feeds(feed).inFlight == R and inFlightAt != 0.

At inFlightAt + ASK_TIMEOUT - 1 the borrower calls askPaid again.

Expected: a new request, nothing is on its way.

Actual: revert InFlight(R).

Reproduced in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol test_aRefusedDeliveryBlocksAskPaidForTheTimeout.
lowOracleAsker drift trigger: two atomic flash manipulations five blocks apart buy a Treasury-paid update; nothing has to be held across blockssrc/OracleAsker.sol:150
arm() samples poolPrice() once and records block.number; ask() samples it once more at least ARM_DELAY_BLOCKS later. Neither observes the pool between the two samples, so the pool only needs to be off-price at the two instants, each inside its own transaction.

The NatSpec (OracleAsker.sol:40-42 and DeploymentConfig.sol:219-220) claims 'a pool pushed off-price and back inside one transaction (a flash loan) cannot trigger a paid update; holding it off-price across blocks means fighting arbitrageurs with real capital'. Two flash loans (push, arm, restore; five blocks later push, ask, restore) trigger it with no inventory held.

With the constants as committed it is not profitable: moving a $2.27M-a-side 1%-fee pool 25% (half the 5000 bps cap) costs roughly $2.7k in fees per round trip, against 0.5 IMD (~$5.5) of Treasury money per ask and one ask per 10 minutes per feed, so this is a false property statement rather than a drain. It becomes cheaper if governance or a redeploy lowers maxDeviationBps.

Smallest fix: correct the comment, and if the property is wanted, require the drift to be observed on more than two blocks or compare against a TWAP read instead of slot0.
State: asker funded, price feed fresh at 0.001 ETH, pool at 0.001 ETH.

Tx 1: set the pool to 0.0013 ETH (+30%), call arm(feed), set it back to 0.001 in the same transaction.

Roll +5 blocks; driftBps(feed) reads 0.

Tx 2: set the pool to 0.0013, call ask(feed, body), set it back.

Expected per NatSpec: NotNeeded, the drift was never held.

Actual: ask succeeds and the asker pays 0.5 IMD.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol test_flashArmThenFlashAskPaysWithoutHoldingThePoolOffPrice.
lowSwarmWorkOracle: maxAge has no effect on recordRoot or claim, contrary to the NatSpec that a stale tally grants nothing newsrc/SwarmWorkOracle.sol:109
recordRoot reads latestValue() without isStale(), and claim checks only acceptedRoots, the controller, the proof and the per-agent cumulative.

WORK_ORACLE_MAX_AGE (DeploymentConfig.sol:192-194: 'A stale tally grants nothing NEW') and WorkOracleFactory.create's @param maxAge_ ('Seconds after which an attested tally is stale and grants nothing new', WorkOracleFactory.sol:33) describe a property the code does not have: the only things maxAge gates are the base's StaleAttestation check on issuedAt and the deviation bound, which this leaf disables.

Rights accounting itself is sound: creditedTasks[agentId] is monotone so the same cumulative cannot be claimed twice, isController gates who claims, and consumeRights is vault-only and bounded by creditedRights. The consequence is limited to the mismatch: a root attested days ago can be recorded and claimed at today's wage, and nothing about the oracle's freshness is enforced on the work channel (earn() checks only the price and NHI feeds).

Smallest fix: either delete the two claims, or have recordRoot require !isStale() so a root must be recorded while the attestation that carried it is live.
State: a SwarmWorkOracle with maxAge 1 day whose base accepted a one-leaf tally root R at time T (leaf = keccak256(bytes.concat(keccak256(abi.encode(agentId 7, uint32 3, uint64 3))))), ERC8004 adapter answering isController = true, recordRoot not yet called.

At T + 3 days: isStale() == true.

Call recordRoot(): succeeds and marks R accepted.

Call claim(7, 3, 3, [], R).

Expected per the documented property: nothing new is granted from a stale tally.

Actual: returns 3 x WAGE_WAD = 0.03e18 and mintingRights(caller) == 0.03e18.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol test_aStaleTallyRootStillGrantsRights.
lowCHAINLINK_ETH_USD is the Sepolia aggregator: deployed as committed on mainnet the USD leg reads as absent and every price-dependent vault action haltssrc/DeploymentConfig.sol:21
UsdPriceFeed pins ETH_USD = CHAINLINK_ETH_USD in source. The committed value is the Sepolia ETH/USD aggregator; mainnet's is 0x5f4eC3Df9cbd43714FE2740f5E3616155c5b8419 (docs/MAINNET-RUNBOOK.md section 3 lists it under 'must change'). On mainnet the Sepolia address has no code, so _ethUsd()'s staticcall returns no data, latestValue() is (0, 0) and isStale() is true forever.

ParameterizedVault._pricingStale() therefore refuses draw, free-with-debt, cash, bark, bite, heel and earn, and the Treasury values the sIMD reserve at zero. The failure is loud and happens before any deposit, so no funds are at risk, but the pinned commit cannot be the mainnet artifact as the task frames it.

Also not in the task's placeholder list and in the same state: ATTESTATION_RELAYER (Sepolia SwarmRelay) and APPROVED_OPERATOR / FEE_RECIPIENT (an EOA), both tracked in the runbook.

Smallest fix: set the mainnet aggregator, and have DeployProtocol.verify() assert CHAINLINK_ETH_USD.code.length != 0 and decimals() == 8 on the target chain.
State: any chain where 0x694AA1769357215DE4FAC081bf1f309aDC325306 has no code (Ethereum mainnet).

Deploy PriceFeed/NhiFeed/SpotFeed and ParameterizedVault, seed all three swarm feeds with live attestations.

Expected: usdPriceFeed.isStale() == false and draw() possible.

Actual: usdPriceFeed.latestValue() == (0, 0), usdPriceFeed.isStale() == true, vault.draw(1e18) reverts StaleFeed, and treasury.reserveValueUsd() == 0 whatever the reserve holds.

(Locally: vm.etch(CHAINLINK_ETH_USD, '') reproduces the same state.)
infoThe three price-path question prefixes cite generator inputs that are not in the tree, so the pinned questions and the asker's body hashes cannot be regenerated or checked from the repositorysrc/PriceFeed.sol:31
PriceFeed.sol:30-31, SpotFeed.sol:36-37 and NhiFeed.sol:29-30 say each QUESTION_PREFIX is 'DERIVED, NEVER HAND-WRITTEN: emitted by node oracle/question-prefix.mjs whitepaper/requests/.json'.

There is no whitepaper/ directory at the pinned commit; the only price payload present, oracle/price-oracle-quote.json, asks a different question (the Uniswap v3 pool, a single slot0 read) from the one the PriceFeed prefix decodes to (Uniswap v4 pool 0xb07d64..., 13-sample median across the window).

The work-oracle prefix does regenerate byte-for-byte from oracle/work-root-quote.json (checked with the generator), so the tooling works; the inputs for the three price-path feeds are simply missing. docs/MAINNET-RUNBOOK.md section 6 also derives OracleAsker's body hashes from those same bodies, so the asker cannot be constructed from the tree either, and the runbook's pre-flight step 4 (verify each prefix against a live attestation) has, by its own account, never run.

Smallest fix: commit the three frozen request bodies next to oracle/work-root-quote.json and add a test that regenerates each constant from its body.
ls whitepaper/requests at the pinned commit: no such directory. node oracle/question-prefix.mjs oracle/price-oracle-quote.json emits a prefix whose question text ('read slot0().sqrtPriceX96 from the Uniswap v3 pool at 0xd6a8...') differs from PriceFeed.QUESTION_PREFIX decoded ('median Uniswap v4 spot price ... pool id 0xb07d64...'), so expectedQuestionHash cannot be reproduced from any file in the tree.

Expected: the cited file exists and regenerates the constant.

Actual: no file; the constant is unverifiable.
infoSpotFeed NatSpec says the spot feed wants a tighter freshness window than the primary, but both lifetimes are now one hoursrc/SpotFeed.sol:21
SpotFeed.sol:19-22 justifies the artifact partly by a tighter freshness window than the window-average primary, and script/DeployProtocol.s.sol:76 repeats 'SPOT_MAX_AGE is tighter because'. Since the 2026-10-05 parameter change PRICE_MAX_AGE and SPOT_MAX_AGE are both 1 hour (DeploymentConfig.sol:38-39), so the claim is stale. Behaviourally nothing is wrong: tail() is min(price, NHI) = 1 hour and the divergence guard reads both feeds' own staleness.

Related doc drift noticed while tracing the consumer, outside this scope: CDPVault.bite's NatSpec (CDPVault.sol:779) still states a 1.1e18 payout and 110%, and cut()'s (CDPVault.sol:177) 'the existing 10% bonus', while CHOP_PERCENT is 20.

Smallest fix: update the comments.
Read src/DeploymentConfig.sol:38-39: PRICE_MAX_AGE = 1 hours, SPOT_MAX_AGE = 1 hours.

Deploy SpotFeed(SPOT_MAX_AGE, x) and PriceFeed(PRICE_MAX_AGE, x): spot.maxAge() == price.maxAge() == 3600.

Expected per the comment: spot.maxAge() < price.maxAge().

Actual: equal.

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highSwarmFeed never compares the signed window with the chain head: an answer signed now over a window that closed hours or days ago is accepted and dated nowsrc/SwarmFeed.sol:240

Reachable with the constants as committed, for three reasons.

Price and spot feeds are deliberately not kept alive (DeploymentConfig.sol:32-38, PRICE_MAX_AGE = SPOT_MAX_AGE = 1 hour), so lastToBlock is routinely hours or days behind the head, and once the value is older than maxAge the deviation bound is lifted (line 299). ATTESTATION_CHAIN_ID is 1, so on mainnet the feed runs on the chain the window is about and could check it.
The attester signs windows the buyer pins. The request schema takes window:{fromBlock,toBlock} (oracle/nhi-composite-quote.json, oracle/vwap-oracle-quote.json), and the repository's own threat model assumes this buyer (test/QuestionBinding.t.sol:94-96). I also read the service's public request list on 2026-10-05 (GET api.imd.fun/oracle/requests, the endpoint oracle/question-prefix.mjs --verify uses; this is outside the pinned tree): request 26778b1f-ceda-47b0-a7ac-78d5f8adebfd, chainId 1, was created at 06:45:21Z with window 26122900..26122901. Mainnet block 26122901 has timestamp 1791163955 (01:32:35Z) and the attestation's issuedAt is 1791182787, so the attester signed 5 h 14 min, about 1,569 blocks, after the window closed. In the same list, 96 chain-read requests created within two minutes cover 16 different back-to-back windows spanning about 188,000 blocks of another chain. The service does sign old windows, dated now.
The consumer domain is named by the requester and SwarmRelay admits everyone, so the buyer needs no privilege: copy the pinned question, replace window:{hours:N} with explicit blocks, name the feed as consumer.

What the vault then does, reproduced through ParameterizedVault and SwarmRelay with question-bound leaves (ETH at $2,500, IMD at $10 now):

cash at a past low. With a three-day-old $9 window as the price, burning 1,000 imdUSD (5% of supply, fee 300 bps) paid 107.78 IMD, worth $1,077.78 at the live price, taken from a borrower at 180% who had $1,000 of debt cancelled. Any upward drift since the last update larger than the redemption fee is taken this way, from the Treasury's reserve first and then from any position inside mat + gap at the stal

test/scratch/WindowRecency.t.sol (attached), a leaf with PriceFeed's policy (span 300..1200, maxAge 1 hour, 5000 bps) on chain 1, block 26,100,000.

An honest attestation over [26,099,380, 26,099,980] is accepted.

Warp 3 days, roll 21,600 blocks: isStale() is true.

Expected: revert.

Actual: accepted; latestValue() is the three-day-old figure dated now and isStale() is false for the next hour.

Second test: fromBlock head + 999,400, toBlock head + 1,000,000.

Expected: revert.

Actual: accepted, lastToBlock == 27,100,000.

All three pass with the fix above, with the maxSpan variant and with the blockhash variant, each tried on a patched copy.

The three specialist proofs for this finding were also run and fail the same way.

Vault figures above come from a second scratch test (StaleWindowVault.t.sol, not attached) driving ParameterizedVault.cash and draw after SwarmRelay.relayMany.

proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.26;

import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {SwarmFeed} from "src/SwarmFeed.sol";

/// @dev A question-bound leaf with PriceFeed's policy (span 300..1200 blocks, one-hour lifetime, the
/// deploy scripts' 5000 bps), on the chain its question is about (chain 1), which is the mainnet
/// launch: the data chain and the consumer chain are the same, so `block.number` is comparable to
/// the signed window. The attester is a test key because the shipped leaves pin the oracle service's
/// key; the check under test, `SwarmFeed._requireQuestion`, is the code all four leaves inherit.
contract WindowBoundLeaf is SwarmFeed {
    constructor(address attester_) SwarmFeed(attester_, address(0), 1, 3, 1 hours, 5000) {}

    function questionPolicy() internal pure override returns (bytes memory, uint64, uint64) {
        return ('{"answerType":"uint256","chainId":1,"question":"q","v":1,"window":{"fromBlock":', 300, 1200);
    }
}

/// @notice `_requireQuestion` compares the signed window with the last ACCEPTED window only, never
/// with the block the feed is running in. An attestation signed now is therefore accepted over any
/// window that closed after the last update, however long ago, and dated now.
///
/// The first two tests FAIL on the code as committed and pass once the window is bound to the chain
/// head. The third passes before and after: an honest attestation, relayed ten minutes after it was
/// signed over a window that had just closed, must stay acceptable.
contract WindowRecencyTest is Test {
    uint256 private constant ATTESTER_KEY = 0xA11CE;
    uint256 private constant HONEST_PRICE = 3_000_000_000_000_000; // 0.003 ETH per IMD

    WindowBoundLeaf private feed;

    function setUp() public {
        vm.chainId(1);
        vm.warp(1_791_000_000);
        vm.roll(26_100_000);
        feed = new WindowBoundLeaf(vm.addr(ATTESTER_KEY));

        // An honest update: a two-hour window that closed 20 blocks before the head, signed now.
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(26_099_380, 26_099_980, HONEST_PRICE);
        feed.submitAttestation(a, _sign(a));
        assertEq(feed.lastToBlock(), 26_099_980);
    }

    /// @dev Three days pass with no update, which is the design for a price feed (bought on demand,
    /// never on a clock). A buyer then has the pinned question answered over the window that opened
    /// right after the last accepted one, i.e. one that closed three days ago, and relays it.
    function test_aWindowThatClosedThreeDaysBeforeTheHeadIsRefused() public {
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 3 days);
        vm.roll(block.number + 21_600);
        assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "the feed lapsed, so the deviation bound no longer applies");

        // Half the honest price: what the market read three days ago, in this example.
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory old_ = _attestation(26_099_981, 26_100_581, HONEST_PRICE / 2);
        bytes memory sig = _sign(old_);
        assertEq(block.number - old_.toBlock, 21_019, "the window closed 21,019 blocks (about 70 hours) ago");

        bool accepted;
        try feed.submitAttestation(old_, sig) {
            accepted = true;
        } catch {}

        assertFalse(accepted, "a window that closed three days before the head was accepted");
        (uint256 value,) = feed.latestValue();
        assertEq(value, HONEST_PRICE, "a three-day-old reading became the feed's value");
        assertTrue(feed.isStale(), "a three-day-old reading reads as fresh for the next hour");
    }

    /// @dev The other direction of the same missing comparison. `lastToBlock` only moves forward and
    /// the feed has no admin, so one accepted window beyond the head refuses every honest attestation
    /// until the chain reaches that block.
    function test_aWindowBeyondTheHeadIsRefused() public {
        uint64 future = uint64(block.number) + 1_000_000;
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory ahead = _attestation(future - 600, future, HONEST_PRICE);
        bytes memory sig = _sign(ahead);

        bool accepted;
        try feed.submitAttestation(ahead, sig) {
            accepted = true;
        } catch {}

        assertFalse(accepted, "a window that has not happened yet was accepted");
        assertEq(feed.lastToBlock(), 26_099_980, "lastToBlock moved past the head and cannot come back");
    }

    /// @dev Control. Signed now over a window that closed 20 blocks ago, relayed 10 minutes later.
    function test_control_anHonestAttestationRelayedTenMinutesLateIsAccepted() public {
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 2 hours);
        vm.roll(block.number + 600);

        uint64 to = uint64(block.number) - 20;
        SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a = _attestation(to - 600, to, HONEST_PRICE * 101 / 100);
        bytes memory sig = _sign(a);

        vm.warp(block.timestamp + 10 minutes);
        vm.roll(block.number + 50);
        feed.submitAttestation(a, sig);

        (uint256 value, uint64 updatedAt) = feed.latestValue();
        assertEq(value, HONEST_PRICE * 101 / 100);
        assertEq(updatedAt, a.issuedAt, "freshness is counted from the signing time");
        assertFalse(feed.isStale());
    }

    function _attestation(uint64 fromBlock, uint64 toBlock, uint256 figure)
        private
        view
        returns (SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a)
    {
        a.requestId = keccak256(abi.encode(fromBlock, toBlock, figure));
        a.chainId = 1;
        a.questionHash = feed.expectedQuestionHash(fromBlock, toBlock);
        a.answerType = 3;
        a.answer = abi.encode(figure);
        a.figure = figure;
        a.fromBlock = fromBlock;
        a.toBlock = toBlock;
        // What the service signs: the hash of the window's closing block. Inside the EVM's 256-block
        // horizon that is what `blockhash` returns; outside it the chain can no longer vouch for it.
        bytes32 closing = blockhash(toBlock);
        a.blockHash = closing != bytes32(0) ? closing : keccak256(abi.encode("block", toBlock));
        a.panelJobId = keccak256("panel");
        a.panelSize = 60;
        a.quorum = 20;
        a.agreed = 20;
        a.issuedAt = uint64(block.timestamp);
        a.expiresAt = uint64(block.timestamp + 1 days);
    }

    function _sign(SwarmFeed.OracleAttestation memory a) private view returns (bytes memory) {
        bytes32 structHash = keccak256(
            bytes.concat(
                abi.encode(
                    feed.ATTESTATION_TYPEHASH(),
                    a.requestId,
                    a.chainId,
                    a.questionHash,
                    a.answerType,
                    keccak256(a.answer),
                    a.figure,
                    a.fromBlock
                ),
                abi.encode(
                    a.toBlock, a.blockHash, a.panelJobId, a.panelSize, a.quorum, a.agreed, a.issuedAt, a.expiresAt
                )
            )
        );
        (uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) =
            vm.sign(ATTESTER_KEY, keccak256(abi.encodePacked("\x19\x01", feed.DOMAIN_SEPARATOR(), structHash)));
        return abi.encodePacked(r, s, v);
    }
}

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