Decentralized Oracle Manipulation and Price Feed Security

Oracle manipulation remains one of the highest-impact attack vectors in decentralized finance. When an oracle reports false prices, the damage propagates through every protocol that depends on those prices for collateral valuation, liquidation thresholds, and yield calculations. This article examines how low-liquidity pools enable price manipulation, why external dependencies create systemic risk, and how time-weighted average price models serve as a critical defense mechanism against flash loan