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    CVE-2023-34234

    OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for smart contract development. By frontrunning the creation of a proposal, an attacker can become the proposer and gain the ability to cancel it. The attacker can do this repeatedly to try to prevent a proposal from being proposed at all. This impacts the `Governor` contract in v4.9.0 only, and the `GovernorCompatibilityBravo` contract since v4.3.0. This problem has been patched in 4.9.1 by introducing opt-in frontrunning protection. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may submit the proposal creation transaction to an endpoint with frontrunning protection as a workaround.

    Published:Jun 7, 2023
    Last Modified:Feb 6, 2025
    EPS:Jun 7, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00081
    CVSS Score:5.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Openzeppelin
    Product
    Contracts
    Vendor
    Openzeppelin
    Product
    Contracts Upgradeable

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-862 Missing Authorization

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-665 Exploitation of Thunderbolt Protection Flaws

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