CVE-2023-34234
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.11%OpenZeppelin Contracts's governor proposal creation may be blocked by frontrunning
Description
### Impact 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. ### Patches The problem has been patched in 4.9.1 by introducing opt-in frontrunning protection. ### Workarounds Submit the proposal creation transaction to an endpoint with frontrunning protection. ### Credit Reported by Lior Abadi and Joaquin Pereyra from Coinspect. ### References https://www.coinspect.com/openzeppelin-governor-dos/
Affected packages (2)
- npm/@openzeppelin/contracts>= 4.3.0, < 4.9.1
- npm/@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable>= 4.3.0, < 4.9.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34234
- PATCHhttps://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts
- WEBhttps://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/commit/d9474327a492f9f310f31bc53f38dbea56ed9a57
- WEBhttps://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/releases/tag/v4.9.1
- WEBhttps://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/security/advisories/GHSA-5h3x-9wvq-w4m2
- WEBhttps://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts-upgradeable/commit/66f390fa516b550838e2c2f65132b5bc2afe1ced