CVE-2023-34234

MEDIUM

Openzeppelin Contracts < 4.9.1 - Missing Authorization

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 28.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (4)
openzeppelin/contracts 4.3.0 - 4.9.1
openzeppelin/contracts 4.3.0 - 4.9.1npm
openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable 4.3.0 - 4.9.1npm
openzeppelin/contracts_upgradeable 4.3.0 - 4.9.1
Published Jun 07, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026