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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2023-40014 EUVD-2023-2289GHSA-g4vp-m682-qqmp

OpenZeppelin Contracts's ERC2771Context with custom forwarder may lead to zero-valued _msgSender

Published Aug 10, 2023 · Updated Oct 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development. Starting in version 4.0.0 and prior to version 4.9.3, contracts using `ERC2771Context` along with a custom trusted forwarder may see `_msgSender` return `address(0)` in calls that originate from the forwarder with calldata shorter than 20 bytes. This combination of circumstances does not appear to be common, in particular it is not the case for `MinimalForwarder` from OpenZeppelin Contracts, or any deployed forwarder the team is aware of, given that the signer address is appended to all calls that originate from these forwarders. The problem has been patched in v4.9.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenZeppelin openzeppelin-contracts >= 4.0.0, < 4.9.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS smart No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS smart No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @openzeppelin/contracts >= 4.0.0, < 4.9.3 4.9.3 GHSA-g4vp-m682-qqmp
npm @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable >= 4.0.0, < 4.9.3 4.9.3 GHSA-g4vp-m682-qqmp

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