CVE-2026-63634 PUBLISHED

pympp: Gas Draining with padding

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 17.07.2026 Published: 09.11.2026 Updated: 09.11.2026

pympp is a Python SDK for the Machine Payments Protocol. Prior to version 0.9.1, when the server acts as the fee_payer, pympp validates calldata using eth_abi decoding, which is lenient about trailing bytes. The FeePayerPolicy caps gas_limit (≤ 2 M) and max_fee_per_gas (≤ 100 Gwei) but does not check calldata length. Tempo uses legacy calldata gas pricing: 16 gas per non-zero byte. Appending N bytes of 0x01 padding inflates actual gas used by N × 16 while keeping gas_limit and max_fee_per_gas within policy caps. The server cosigns and broadcasts the padded transaction, draining its fee-payer wallet. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor tempoxyz
Product pympp
Versions
  • Version < 0.9.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation CWE