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Reviewed smart contract vulnerability references covering mechanics, evidence, mitigations, and analysis limits.
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Reviewed Class Live
Critical Severity
Access Control Vulnerability
Learn how access control vulnerability works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts.
Cross-Chain Bridge Vulnerability
Learn how cross-chain bridge vulnerability works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts.
Delegatecall Injection
Learn how delegatecall injection works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated d...
Flash Loan Attack
Learn how flash loan attack works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated detect...
Governance Attack
Learn how governance attack works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated detect...
Oracle Manipulation
Learn how oracle manipulation works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated dete...
Price Manipulation
Learn how price manipulation works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated detec...
Proxy Storage Collision
Learn how storage collisions and uninitialized proxies break upgradeable smart contracts, see real incidents, and detect them with Firepan HOUND AI.
Reentrancy Attack
Learn how smart contract reentrancy works, how to review external-call and state-update ordering, and how CEI and ReentrancyGuard reduce risk.
Signature Replay Attack
Learn how signature replay attack works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated ...
High Severity
Centralization & Privileged-Role Risk
Learn how admin keys, mint authority, and upgrade powers create rug and single-point-of-failure risk in smart contracts, and how Firepan HOUND AI surfaces them.
Denial of Service (DoS)
Learn how denial of service (dos) works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated ...
ERC-4626 Inflation Attack
Learn how the ERC-4626 first-depositor inflation attack steals vault deposits via share-price manipulation, see the exploit, and detect it with Firepan HOUND AI.
Fee-on-Transfer & Rebasing Token Integration
Learn how fee-on-transfer and rebasing tokens break DeFi accounting, see real exploits, and detect unsafe token integration with Firepan HOUND AI.
Front-Running (MEV)
Learn how front-running (mev) works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated dete...
Insufficient Slippage Protection
Learn how missing slippage limits and unprotected swaps let MEV bots sandwich users, see the pattern, and detect it with Firepan HOUND AI.
Integer Overflow & Underflow
Learn how integer overflow & underflow works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts.
Business Logic Error
Learn how business logic error works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated det...
Precision Loss & Rounding Errors
Learn how division-before-multiplication and rounding errors leak value from DeFi contracts, see real cases, and detect precision loss with Firepan HOUND AI.
Read-Only Reentrancy
Learn how read-only reentrancy manipulates view functions and price getters mid-callback, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it with Firepan HOUND AI.
Selfdestruct Abuse
Learn how selfdestruct abuse works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated detec...
Signature Malleability
Learn how ECDSA signature malleability lets attackers forge a second valid signature, replay actions, and bypass dedup, and detect it with Firepan HOUND AI.
tx.origin Authentication Flaw
Learn how tx.origin authentication flaw works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts.
Unchecked Return Value
Learn how unchecked return value works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated d...
Uninitialized Storage Pointer
Learn how uninitialized storage pointer works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts.
Weak Randomness
Learn how predictable on-chain randomness (block.timestamp, blockhash, prevrandao) is exploited in lotteries, mints and games, and detect it with Firepan HOUND AI.
Medium & Low Severity
ERC-20 Approve Race Condition
Learn how the ERC-20 approve race condition lets a spender front-run an allowance change to spend both amounts, and how to detect it with Firepan HOUND AI.
Forced Ether Sending
Learn how forced ether sending works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated det...
Gas Griefing
Learn how gas griefing works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated detection i...
Timestamp Dependence
Learn how timestamp dependence works, see real DeFi exploits, and detect it automatically with Firepan HOUND AI across all monitored contracts. Automated det...
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