★ Rescue/emergencyWithdraw without timelock
Wormhole's assessment for RD-F-041 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Rescue / emergencyWithdraw without timelock | `submitTransferFees()` in Governance.sol can transfer accumulated message fees to an arbitrary recipient immediately upon valid 13/19 guardian VAA. Effectively functions as a fee-drain path without additional timelock beyond the guardian signing requirement. No `rescue` or `emergencyWithdraw` function found on Token Bridge (Bridge.sol analysis). Fee accumulations are not equivalent to total bridge TVL. | Governance.sol WebFetch (confirming submitT...
Sources #
- Curator noteExtracted from 02-governance-admin.md — RD-F-041; no URL citedretrieved 2026-04-28
Methodology #
Determine whether a `rescue(…)` or `emergencyWithdraw(…)` function exists callable by admin without a timelock delay on execution.
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