# CVE-2022-31170: OpenZeppelin Contracts's ERC165Checker may revert instead of returning false

- Also known as: GHSA-QH9X-GCFH-PCRW
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.7.1
- Published: 2022-07-21 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- OpenZeppelin openzeppelin-contracts: from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.7.1
- @openzeppelin/contracts (npm): from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.7.1
- @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable (npm): from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.7.1

## Description

OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for smart contract development. Versions 4.0.0 until 4.7.1 are vulnerable to ERC165Checker reverting instead of returning `false`. `ERC165Checker.supportsInterface` is designed to always successfully return a boolean, and under no circumstance revert. However, an incorrect assumption about Solidity 0.8's `abi.decode` allows some cases to revert, given a target contract that doesn't implement EIP-165 as expected, specifically if it returns a value other than 0 or 1. The contracts that may be affected are those that use `ERC165Checker` to check for support for an interface and then handle the lack of support in a way other than reverting. The issue was patched in version 4.7.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenZeppelin openzeppelin-contracts, @openzeppelin/contracts, @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable, upgrade to a fixed version (4.7.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/pull/3552
- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/security/advisories/GHSA-qh9x-gcfh-pcrw

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