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    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.

    Published:Aug 14, 2022
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2025
    EPS:Aug 14, 2022
    EPSS Score:0.00127
    CVSS Score:7.9

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    Openzeppelin
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    Contracts
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    Openzeppelin
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    Contracts Upgradeable

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