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DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Audit Guide

Here's a thinking process:

  1. Understand User Request:

    • Topic: DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities
    • Quantity: 3 common ones
    • Requirement: List them and explain how to detect them, with specificity
  2. Identify Key Vulnerabilities in DeFi Smart Contracts:
    I need to pick 3 of the most common, impactful, and well-documented vulnerabilities in DeFi smart contracts. Common ones include:

    • Reentrancy attacks
    • Arithmetic overflows/underflows (though less common now with Solidity ^0.8.0)
    • Access control issues (owner-only functions, proxy admin takeovers)
    • Front-running / MEV related issues
    • Oracle manipulation/price feed issues
    • Integer division issues
    • Logic errors in token transfers/swaps
    • Unchecked return values
    • Timestamp dependence
    • Authorization bugs (

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