Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting @openzeppelin/contracts package, versions <4.7.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-OPENZEPPELINCONTRACTS-2980279
  • published 14 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 14 Aug 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade @openzeppelin/contracts to version 4.7.3 or higher.

Overview

@openzeppelin/contracts is a library for contract development.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature via ECDSA.recover and ECDSA.tryRecover due to accepting EIP-2098 compact signatures in addition to the traditional 65 byte signature format.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium