CVE-2022-31172 HIGH

CVE-2022-31172: OpenZeppelin Contracts's SignatureChecker may revert on invalid EIP-1271 signers

Vendor Openzeppelin
Product openzeppelin-contracts
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published July 21, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for smart contract development. Versions 4.1.0 until 4.7.1 are vulnerable to the SignatureChecker reverting. `SignatureChecker.isValidSignatureNow` is not expected to revert. However, an incorrect assumption about Solidity 0.8's `abi.decode` allows some cases to revert, given a target contract that doesn't implement EIP-1271 as expected. The contracts that may be affected are those that use `SignatureChecker` to check the validity of a signature and handle invalid signatures in a way other than reverting. The issue was patched in version 4.7.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 21, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated