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DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Audit Guide

Here's a thinking process:

  1. Understand User Request:

    • User wants: List 3 common DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities
    • For each: How to detect them
    • Must be specific
  2. Identify Key DeFi Vulnerabilities:
    I need to pick 3 well-known, impactful, and commonly discussed DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities. Good candidates:

    • Reentrancy attacks (e.g., The DAO)
    • Integer overflow/underflow (though less common now with Solidity ^0.8.0, still relevant in older code or via library interactions)
    • Access control issues (owner-only functions, proxy admin takeovers)
    • Flash loan attacks (manipulating prices, draining liquidity)
    • Oracle manipulation/price feed vulnerabilities
    • Front-running / MEV related issues
    • Reentrancy guards missing
    • Logic errors in swap/liquidity functions

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