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HIGH7.9

GHSA-4h98-2769-gh6h

OpenZeppelin Contracts vulnerable to ECDSA signature malleability

Quick fix

GHSA-4h98-2769-gh6h — @openzeppelin/contracts: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install @openzeppelin/contracts@4.7.3

Details

### Impact

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.

### Patches

The issue has been patched in 4.7.3.

### For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, or need assistance deploying a fix, email us at [security@openzeppelin.com](mailto:security@openzeppelin.com).

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Affected packages

npm/@openzeppelin/contracts
Introduced in: 4.1.0Fixed in: 4.7.3
Fixnpm install @openzeppelin/contracts@4.7.3
npm/@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable
Introduced in: 4.1.0Fixed in: 4.7.3
Fixnpm install @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable@4.7.3

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