CVE-2022-35961
ECDSA signature malleability in OpenZeppelin Contracts
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.9 High
- Published
- Aug 14, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 15, 2022
Description
OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development. The functions `ECDSA.recover` and `ECDSA.tryRecover` are vulnerable to a kind of signature malleability due to accepting EIP-2098 compact signatures in addition to the traditional 65 byte signature format. This is only an issue for the functions that take a single `bytes` argument, and not the functions that take `r, v, s` or `r, vs` as separate arguments. The potentially affected contracts are those that implement signature reuse or replay protection by marking the signature itself as used rather than the signed message or a nonce included in it. A user may take a signature that has already been submitted, submit it again in a different form, and bypass this protection. The issue has been patched in 4.7.3.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.9 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-354 Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
openzeppelin-contractsOpenZeppelin |
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References
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