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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 14, 2022· Updated Apr 23, 2025

ECDSA signature malleability in OpenZeppelin Contracts

CVE-2022-35961

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
@openzeppelin/contractsnpm
>= 4.1.0, < 4.7.34.7.3
@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeablenpm
>= 4.1.0, < 4.7.34.7.3

Affected products

3

Patches

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