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MakerDAO ETH-A Liquidation Keeper Bot

Oct 6, 2026

$538K
Lost
$538K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$538K
Unrecovered0% recovered

A dormant third-party MakerDAO ETH-A liquidation keeper had an unprotected drain routine that lacked ds-auth authorization. Any caller could invoke the function and provide the withdrawal recipient.

exit() to send it to an attacker-controlled recipient and unwrap it to ETH. MakerDAO’s core contracts behaved as designed; the vulnerability was in the third-party keeper.

Target
DeFi
Classification
Access Control
Technique
Improper Access Control
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. Oct 6, 2026
    Exploit executed — $538K drained via improper access control
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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