Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
axelarnetwork/interchain-token-service
main @ ff21991
20
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
37.5%
Coverage
Highlights
Access Control: 13 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
contracts/InterchainTokenService.sol: most-fixed (8 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
12 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Access Control: Multiple high-severity fixes show that critical functions like deployTokenManager, contractCallWithTokenValue, and execute lacked proper caller restrictions or modifiers, allowing unauthorized token management and cross-chain calls.
Access Control: The factory had multiple access control bypasses: allowing ITS as minter, lacking deployer balance checks, and permitting gateway tokens to be registered as canonical, enabling unauthorized token creation or registration.
Authentication Bypass: The default trusted address fallback allowed spoofed messages from unregistered chains to bypass sender validation, a critical authentication flaw.