CVE-2022-35916: Openzeppelin Contracts

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openzeppelin Contracts: from 4.6.0, before 4.7.2 (fixed in 4.7.2)
• Openzeppelin Contracts Upgradeable: from 4.6.0, before 4.7.2 (fixed in 4.7.2)

Published 2022-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.