Transaction denial via misbound ECDSA pointer
Published Jul 15, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025
Availability failure in OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo 0.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to halt Goerli account transactions. The Account library's execute path allocates ecdsa_ptr as ordinary memory instead of receiving the SignatureBuiltin pointer, so StarkNet rejects signature hints. Only vanilla and Ethereum-flavor 0.2.0 accounts on Goerli are exposed; mainnet whitelisting and the test framework prevent the same observable failure.
Summary
What happened
Availability failure in OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo 0.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to halt Goerli account transactions. The Account library's execute path allocates ecdsa_ptr as ordinary memory instead of receiving the SignatureBuiltin pointer, so StarkNet rejects signature hints. Only vanilla and Ethereum-flavor 0.2.0 accounts on Goerli are exposed; mainnet whitelisting and the test framework prevent the same observable failure.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-31153
- Published
- Jul 15, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 22, 2025
- Vendor
- OpenZeppelin
- Product
- OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo
- Classifications
- CWE-863, CWE-664, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 15, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 22, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion== 0.2.0
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Public exploit references
- Goerli transaction rejection demonstrationproof of concept · demonstrated
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