A Survey on Vulnerabilities of Ethereum Smart Contracts

Abstract: Smart contract (SC) is an extension of BlockChain technology. Ethereum BlockChain was the first to incorporate SC and thus started a new era of crypto-currencies and electronic transactions. Solidity helps to program the SCs. Still, soon after Solidity's emergence in 2014, Solidity-based SCs suffered many attacks that deprived the SC account holders of their precious funds. The main reason for these attacks was the presence of vulnerabilities in SC. This paper discusses SC vulnerabilities and classifies them according to the domain knowledge of the faulty operations. This classification is a source of reminding developers and software engineers that for SC's safety, each SC requires proper testing with effective tools to catch those classes' vulnerabilities.