CVE-2023-34234: OpenZeppelin Contracts's governor proposal creation may be blocked by frontrunning
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.
References
- github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/commit/d9474327a492f9f310f31bc53f38dbea56ed9a57
- github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/releases/tag/v4.9.1
- github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/security/advisories/GHSA-5h3x-9wvq-w4m2
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-5h3x-9wvq-w4m2
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34234
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