Rari-Capital Fuse Hack Analysis & POC

Getting Started

This repo contains a POC of a hack that took place on Ethereum Block 14684685, where the hacker ran away with around $79M in different assests. You can find more details in the links below.

  1. In depth Analysis

Prerequisites

You will need to install foundry to run the exploit. Link for installtion foundry.

How to exploit, Anon ?

  1. Clone the repo
    git clone https://github.com/abdulsamijay/Rari-Capital-Exploit-POC.git
  2. Build the example to install all packages
    forge build
  3. Run the test
    forge test -vv --fork-url <YOUR_API_PROVIDER> --fork-block-number 14684684

Key takeway

This is an example of a classic re-entrancy attack. The main reason behind the infamous DAO hack was re-entrancy where the hacker repeatedly called withdraw() function before the balance was updated.

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