Vulnerability Details CVE-2022-35961
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 2.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.9
Products affected by CVE-2022-35961
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts:4.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openzeppelin:contracts_upgradeable:4.7.2