Chat points manipulation via custom Uniswap V4 pools

Source & credit. Reproduction of a public audit finding curated by AuditVault — the original finding: 62647-chat-points-manipulation-by-adding-liquidity-to-custom-pools. Standalone Foundry PoC and full write-up: 62647-chat-points-manipulation-by-adding-liquidity-to-custom-pools_exp in the evm-hack-registry mirror.

Field	Value
Protocol	Semantic Layer
Severity	high
Source	AuditVault / https://github.com/spearbit/portfolio/blob/master/pdfs/Semantic-Layer-Spearbit-Security-Review-May-2025.pdf
Harm	Full chat points for ~1% capital via unvalidated custom pool key

TL;DR#

Full chat points for ~1% capital via unvalidated custom pool key

Vulnerable code#

See the synthetic reproduction in test/62647-chat-points-manipulation-by-adding-liquidity-to-custom-pools.sol — the blamed line is marked // @> VULN.

Root cause#

Faithful reduction of the AuditVault finding. The vulnerable line is preserved so the Playground locator points at the real bug, not scaffolding.

Attack walkthrough#

Deploy the reduced protocol pieces via the Exploit constructor.
run() performs the attack end-to-end and requires the harm.

Diagrams#

sequenceDiagram participant A as Attacker participant V as Vulnerable participant T as Target A->>V: trigger vulnerable path V->>V: @> VULN line executes V->>T: harm materializes A->>A: assert harm

Impact#

Full chat points for ~1% capital via unvalidated custom pool key

Taxonomy#

severity/high
sector/dex
platform/auditvault

Sources#

AuditVault finding: https://github.com/Auditware/AuditVault/blob/main/findings/62647-chat-points-manipulation-by-adding-liquidity-to-custom-pools.md
Original report: https://github.com/spearbit/portfolio/blob/master/pdfs/Semantic-Layer-Spearbit-Security-Review-May-2025.pdf
Reduced from: Spearbit Semantic Layer May 2025 (SVFHook.addLiquidity)

Sources & further analysis#

Reproductions & code

Standalone PoC + full trace: 62647-chat-points-manipulation-by-adding-liquidity-to-custom-pools_exp (evm-hack-registry mirror).
AuditVault finding: 62647-chat-points-manipulation-by-adding-liquidity-to-custom-pools.

Alerts & third-party analyses

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