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DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Audit Guide

Here's a thinking process:

  1. Analyze User Request:

    • Topic: DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities
    • Format: 3 specific vulnerabilities for an audit report
    • Requirement: Be specific
  2. Identify Key Requirements:

    • Must describe 3 vulnerabilities
    • Must be specific (not generic like "reentrancy")
    • Context: audit report format/style
    • Should cover well-known but critical issues with technical depth appropriate for an audit
  3. Brainstorm Potential Vulnerabilities:

    • Reentrancy (too generic, need to specify a variant or scenario)
    • Integer overflow/underflow (old news, but still relevant in some contexts)
    • Access control issues
    • Oracle manipulation
    • Flash loan attacks (often a combination)
    • Front-running / MEV
    • Logic errors in liquidation/auction mechanisms
    • Misaligned incentives /

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