Official XRPL vulnerability disclosure report published October 9, 2026.
What happened
A researcher (Cayden Liao and Veria AI) reported an integer-overflow bug in the payment engine through the XRPL Bug Bounty program on September 22, 2026. It affected xrpld 3.4.0 and earlier and dated back to when the current payment engine was written in 2015.
How it worked: When a payment consumed many offers from the order book, the engine summed the amounts the buyer owed using plain 64-bit integer addition with no overflow check. A few hundred specially crafted offers (each selling a tiny amount of a token for a very large amount of XRP) could make the total wrap around to a small number. The engine still paid each offer owner the full amount but charged the buyer only the wrapped-around total effectively minting the difference as new, spendable XRP.
Two existing safeguards failed for the same reason:
• The built-in “no XRP created” invariant check used the same unchecked 64-bit summing and also wrapped around, so it saw only the normal transaction fee.
• Per-account balance limits only trigger if one account exceeds the total supply; spreading the minted XRP across many attacker-controlled accounts kept each under the limit.
The attack required unnatural offer prices that no real trader would use and a payment deliberately built to consume them all at once. It could not be triggered by ordinary trading or payments. Cost was low (account/offer reserves plus fees).
Fix and impact
The fix shipped in the emergency xrpld 3.4.1 release on September 25, 2026. The payment engine now checks for overflow when summing offer amounts; if it would overflow, that part of the payment fails cleanly (path dry / partial payment). The invariant checker was also upgraded to a wider counter, and related summing paths were hardened.
Because of the severity (cheap, no special access, and able to mint spendable XRP), this change was applied immediately on upgrade rather than going through the normal multi-week amendment process. Validators upgraded rapidly (>80% of the default UNL on release day). The source code was withheld briefly and has since been published.
No evidence of exploitation on any public network.
The same 3.4.1 release also fixed a separate Batch-transaction wrapper validation issue (fixBatchV1_2 amendment, which activated on mainnet today). Older servers are now amendment-blocked and must upgrade to stay in sync.
IMO: Nobody knows what effect this has had on the supply.
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