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CVE-2022-35961

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.5) in openzeppelin. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in @openzeppelin/contracts 4.7.3.

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

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE
CWE-354
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-4h98-2769-gh6hnpm@openzeppelin/contracts>=4.1.0 <4.7.34.7.3
GHSA-4h98-2769-gh6hnpm@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable>=4.1.0 <4.7.34.7.3

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