CVE-2022-35916Cross chain utilities for Arbitrum L2 see EOA calls as cross chain calls
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.60%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 51% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development. Contracts using the cross chain utilities for Arbitrum L2, `CrossChainEnabledArbitrumL2` or `LibArbitrumL2`, will classify direct interactions of externally owned accounts (EOAs) as cross chain calls, even though they are not started on L1. This issue has been patched in v4.7.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
OpenZeppelin · openzeppelin-contracts
- affected >= 4.6.0, < 4.7.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npm@openzeppelin/contractsGHSA-9j3m-g383-29qr (opens in a new tab)
- npm@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeableGHSA-9j3m-g383-29qr (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/security/advisories/GHSA-9j3m-g383-29qr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/pull/3578 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-6524 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9j3m-g383-29qr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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