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CVE-2023-23940: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

February 3, 2023 (updated November 9, 2023)

OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo is a library for secure smart contract development written in Cairo for StarkNet, a decentralized ZK Rollup. is_valid_eth_signature is missing a call to finalize_keccak after calling verify_eth_signature. As a result, any contract using is_valid_eth_signature from the account library (such as the EthAccount preset) is vulnerable to a malicious sequencer. Specifically, the malicious sequencer would be able to bypass signature validation to impersonate an instance of these accounts. The issue has been patched in 0.6.1.

References

  • github.com/OpenZeppelin/cairo-contracts/pull/542/commits/6d4cb750478fca2fd916f73297632f899aca9299
  • github.com/OpenZeppelin/cairo-contracts/security/advisories/GHSA-626q-v9j4-mcp4
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23940

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.2.0 before 0.6.1

Fixed versions

  • 0.6.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.6.1 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Source file

npm/@openzeppelin/contracts/CVE-2023-23940.yml

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