Compound Alpha Governance System Audit

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OpenZeppelin reviewed Compound (Compound Alpha Governance System Audit) on 25 Feb 2020: 11 findings, 0 critical; 1 marked fixed, 10 open.

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Findings11

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SeverityOpenAcknowledgedFixed
Critical000
High101
Medium300
Low600
High[H01] Approved proposal may be impossible to queue, cancel or executeOpen

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Medium[M01] GovernorAlpha contract does not fully match specificationOpen

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Medium[M02] Lack of allowance front-running mitigation in ERC20 tokenOpen

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Medium[M03] Proposal execution not handling returned dataOpen

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Low[L01] Lack of indexed parameters in eventsOpen

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Low[L02] Storage modification in require statementOpen

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Low[L03] Missing docstringsOpen

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Low[L04] Lack of input validationOpen

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Low[L05] Not declaring return types in functions with return statementsOpen

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Low[L06] Undocumented, untested, custom behavior in transfer of ERC20 tokenOpen

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Contracts in scope

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Repository and files the report names (5)

  • DAIInterestRateModel.sol
  • Timelock.sol
  • Comp.sol
  • GovernorAlpha.sol
  • CDaiDelegate.sol

Part of Compound’s security record

Compound
Audits21 audits by 4 firmsLast audit Jul 2026, by ChainSecurity.
Critical findings1 open critical findingReported in “Compound Comprehensive Protocol Audit” by OpenZeppelin, Mar 2022. Not marked fixed in that report.
IncidentIncident 29 Sep 2021Source: De.Fi incident database.
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