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Severity: medium
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Lender can front-run borrowers to pay more interest

Summary

Lender can front-run borrower and apply unexpected interest rate for loan.

Vulnerability Details

scenario: Alice wants to borrow a loan from a pool that has interest rate of 10% , Bob (lender of the pool) front-runs Alice and sets pool interest rate to maxInterestRate (for example in this case 15%) . So Alice takes loan with a higher interest rate than she expected.

Impact

The borrower ends up with a loan that has a higher interest rate than expected.

Tools Used

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Recommendations

During borrow take a max interest rate parameter as max interest that the borrower is willing to pay.

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