{"id":"PYSEC-2026-2029","summary":"Vyper's `concat()` builtin may elide side-effects for zero-length arguments","details":"### Impact\n`concat()` may skip evaluation of side effects when the length of an argument is zero. this is due to a fastpath in the implementation which skips evaluation of argument expressions when their length is zero:\nhttps://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/68b68c4b30c5ef2f312b4674676170b8a6eaa316/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L560-L562\n\nin practice, it would be very unusual in user code to construct zero-length bytestrings using an expression with side-effects, since zero-length bytestrings are typically constructed with the empty literal `b\"\"`; the only way to construct an empty bytestring which has side effects would be with the ternary operator introduced in v0.3.8, e.g. `b\"\" if self.do_some_side_effect() else b\"\"`.\n\nthe following example demonstrates how the issue would look in user code\n```vyper\ncounter: public(uint256)\n\n@external\ndef test() -\u003e Bytes[256]:\n    a: Bytes[256] = concat(b\"\" if self.sideeffect() else b\"\", b\"aaaa\")\n    return a\n\ndef sideeffect() -\u003e bool:\n    self.counter += 1\n    return True\n```\n\nthe severity assigned is low, since, as mentioned, this would be a very unusual pattern in user-code.\n\n### Patches\n\nfix is tracked in https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/pull/4644\n\n### Workarounds\ndon't have side effects in expressions which construct zero-length bytestrings.\n\n### References\n_Are there any links users can visit to find out more?_","aliases":["CVE-2025-47285","GHSA-qhr6-mgqr-mchm"],"modified":"2026-07-07T17:47:20.266877349Z","published":"2026-07-07T16:02:52.484672Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/security/advisories/GHSA-qhr6-mgqr-mchm"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47285"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/pull/4644"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/68b68c4b30c5ef2f312b4674676170b8a6eaa316/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L560-L562"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/vyper"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qhr6-mgqr-mchm"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"vyper","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/vyper"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.4.2rc1"}]}],"versions":["0.1.0b1","0.1.0b10","0.1.0b11","0.1.0b12","0.1.0b13","0.1.0b14","0.1.0b15","0.1.0b16","0.1.0b17","0.1.0b2","0.1.0b3","0.1.0b4","0.1.0b5","0.1.0b6","0.1.0b7","0.1.0b8","0.1.0b9","0.2.1","0.2.10","0.2.11","0.2.12","0.2.13","0.2.14","0.2.15","0.2.16","0.2.2","0.2.3","0.2.4","0.2.5","0.2.6","0.2.7","0.2.8","0.2.9","0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.10","0.3.10rc1","0.3.10rc2","0.3.10rc3","0.3.10rc4","0.3.10rc5","0.3.2","0.3.3","0.3.4","0.3.5","0.3.6","0.3.7","0.3.8","0.3.9","0.4.0","0.4.0b1","0.4.0b2","0.4.0b3","0.4.0b4","0.4.0b5","0.4.0b6","0.4.0rc1","0.4.0rc2","0.4.0rc3","0.4.0rc4","0.4.0rc5","0.4.0rc6","0.4.1","0.4.1b1","0.4.1b2","0.4.1b3","0.4.1b4","0.4.1rc1","0.4.1rc2","0.4.1rc3","0.4.2rc1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/vyper/PYSEC-2026-2029.yaml"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P"}]}