OxZ00mer - No L2 sequencer check when getting ETH price for the sake of calculating keeper fees

[sherlock-admin]

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No L2 sequencer check when getting ETH price for the sake of calculating keeper fees

Summary

The lack of a sequencer uptime check allows for the use of a stale price for calculating keeper payouts.

Vulnerability Detail

In the case of sequencer downtime, the prices provided by the Chainlink ETH price feed can become outdated, paying the keepers out with outdated rates.

Impact

If ETH was to significantly move in price while the sequencer is down it will cause financial damage to the protocol.

Code Snippet

https://github.com/sherlock-audit/2023-07-perennial/blob/main/root/contracts/attribute/Kept.sol#L62

function _etherPrice() private view returns (UFixed18) {
  // @audit no L2 sequencer uptime check
  (, int256 answer, , ,) = ethTokenOracleFeed().latestRoundData();
	return UFixed18Lib.from(Fixed18Lib.ratio(answer, 1e8)); // chainlink eth-usd feed uses 8 decimals
}

Tool used

Manual Review

Recommendation

Consider using the following Chainlink feed to conduct a check for whether the L2 sequencer is down or not.

https://blog.chain.link/how-to-use-chainlink-price-feeds-on-arbitrum/#almost_done!_meet_the_l2_sequencer_health_flag

[sherlock-admin]

2 comment(s) were left on this issue during the judging contest.

141345 commented:

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n33k commented:

unhandled stale price returned from latestRoundData()

[arjun-io]

Same reasoning as #159