OpenZeppelin Confidential Contracts `VestingWalletConfidential`: a malicious ERC-7984…
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-284.
Summary
### Impact Two locations consume an encrypted handle returned by an untrusted external party and use it without verifying that the party is ACL-authorized on it. #### `VestingWalletConfidential` Malicious users can call `release` with a malicious token. This token could return an alternative handle on `confidentialBalanceOf`, which represents the balance of the vesting wallet on an alternative ERC-7984 token (or any other handle that the vesting wallet has access to). The vesting wallet does not check that the token has ACL access and grants access to a new handle derived from the returned handle. Effectively, this bug allows a malicious user to gain information about any private `euint64` handle that the vesting wallet has access to via a malicious ERC-7984 token. There is no loss of funds. #### ERC7984 On a transfer with callback, `ERC7984` uses the `ebool` returned by the recipient's `IERC7984Receiver.onConfidentialTransferReceived` to drive the refund logic, without checking that the recipient has ACL access to it. A malicious recipient can return any `ebool` the token has access to and recover its plaintext from the refund result, which the token grants the caller access to. The leak is limited to `ebool` handles (the value is only used as an `FHE.select` condition), and there is no loss of funds. ### Patches Both issues were fixed in the same patch releases: v0.5.2, v0.4.2, v0.3.2 - `VestingWalletConfidential`: 93e75ceed2b9648f53f9d133f431064353456805 (#423). - `ERC7984` transfer callback: fe0863af2c9dce7614acce98720a913bf6a767a5 (#428), with follow-up ee47edf189ab681cebdad18bfb53dee541987be2 (#431) permitting an uninitialized returned handle.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
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| — | @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) | before 0.3.2 | 0.3.2 | Patch available | GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh |
| — | @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) | 0.4.0-rc.0 to before 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | Patch available | GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh |
| — | @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) | 0.5.0-rc.0 to before 0.5.2 | 0.5.2 | Patch available | GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh |
- @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) Vendor— Affected before 0.3.2 Fixed in 0.3.2 Patch available GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh
- @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) Vendor— Affected 0.4.0-rc.0 to before 0.4.2 Fixed in 0.4.2 Patch available GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh
- @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) Vendor— Affected 0.5.0-rc.0 to before 0.5.2 Fixed in 0.5.2 Patch available GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) Fixed in 0.3.2 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) Fixed in 0.4.2 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh @openzeppelin/confidential-contracts (npm) Fixed in 0.5.2 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh
References
Other 11
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/security/advisories/GHSA-29h2-jr22-frmh
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/pull/423
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/pull/428
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/pull/431
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/commit/93e75ceed2b9648f53f9d133f431064353456805
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/commit/ee47edf189ab681cebdad18bfb53dee541987be2
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/commit/fe0863af2c9dce7614acce98720a913bf6a767a5
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/releases/tag/v0.3.2
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/releases/tag/v0.4.2
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-confidential-contracts/releases/tag/v0.5.2
Sources
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