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DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Audit Guide

Here's a thinking process:

  1. Understand User Request:

    • User wants 3 DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities
    • For an audit report
    • Must be specific
    • I need to provide exactly that: 3 specific vulnerabilities suitable for a DeFi audit report
  2. Identify Key DeFi Vulnerability Categories:

    • Reentrancy
    • Access control / Privilege escalation
    • Arithmetic issues (overflow/underflow, though less common now with Solidity 0.8+)
    • Oracle manipulation
    • Front-running / MEV related
    • Logic errors in protocol operations (liquidations, swaps, etc.)
    • State consistency issues
    • ERC20/ERC777/ERC1155 token interaction bugs
    • Misuse of transfer vs call / send vs call
    • Missing

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