CVE-2021-46320: Improper Initialization

February 4, 2022 (updated February 9, 2022)

In OpenZeppelin <=v4.4.0, initializer functions that are invoked separate from contract creation (the most prominent example being minimal proxies) may be reentered if they make an untrusted non-view external call. Once an initializer has finished running it can never be re-executed. However, an exception put in place to support multiple inheritance made reentrancy possible, breaking the expectation that there is a single execution.

References

github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/security/advisories/GHSA-9c22-pwxw-p6hx
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46320

Code Behaviors & Features

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