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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.9 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-354 Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

Affected Products

ProductVersions
openzeppelin-contractsOpenZeppelin
  • >= 4.1.0, < 4.7.3Affected

References

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