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CVE-2022-35961 (GCVE-0-2022-35961)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-14 00:05 – Updated: 2025-04-23 17:50
VLAI
Title
ECDSA signature malleability in OpenZeppelin Contracts
Summary
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.
Severity
7.9 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 15:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-354 - Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OpenZeppelin openzeppelin-contracts Affected: >= 4.1.0, < 4.7.3
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