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Signature Malleability#

Informational

Signature malleability occurs when there are multiple valid signatures for the same data and public key.

ecrecover allows for malleable signatures. (r,s,v) and (r,s',v) from two "Y" points for a given "X" on the elliptic curve.

ecrecover is used throughout the codebase. No meaningful exploits were found as a result of signature malleability.

Recommendation#

Even so, consider using Open Zeppelin's ECDSA library to recover signature public keys, as they have an explicit check which prevents malleability.