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by bushbaba 1492 days ago
reentrancy attacks are also well known. Yet many DEFI projects continually get hacked from them.
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Is there a list of common attacks with names? This is the first time I've heard the term "reentrancy attack", there's probably a dozen other terms I've never heard of, but would like to read about.
Search for ethernaut for a good overview of exploitable solidity bugs.
Was this a reentrancy attack though

I don’t think it counts as one, I was thinking that needs the governance contract to either recursively call itself or call an external unrelated contract

Correct, the Beanstalk thing was not a reentrancy attack. That was a governance attack on the world's most insecure DAO. The Rari Capital exploit was a reentrancy attack.

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