What Is the Difference between an Oracle Attack and a Governance Attack?

An oracle attack targets the integrity of the price data fed into a smart contract, leading to incorrect execution based on false prices. A governance attack targets the decision-making process of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

In a governance attack, an attacker acquires enough voting power (e.g. through a flash loan of governance tokens) to pass a malicious proposal, such as draining the treasury or changing critical protocol parameters.