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Informational 21 Bitcoin

eth: loosen EIP-712 identifier validation

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Marko Bencun

68/100 · Adequate
eth: loosen EIP-712 identifier validation

Allow ':' in EIP-712 type names used by some dapps as a namespace
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Co-Authored-By: Tomas Vrba <vrba.tomas@pm.me>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This firmware update relaxes the rules for valid Ethereum typed-data (EIP-712) names so they can contain a colon (:), which some decentralized apps use as a namespace separator. Member names still cannot contain colons. The change is presented as safe because a colon cannot be confused with the punctuation that separates type names, fields, and arrays in EIP-712 encoding.

Recommended action

No immediate action required. Users relying on EIP-712 signing with dapps that use namespaced type names should upgrade to v9.26.4. Reviewers may want to confirm that no other EIP-712 parser or downstream component treats ':' as a delimiter in a way that could create ambiguity.

Security signals we found

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Input validation relaxation for externally supplied EIP-712 type names

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Explicit claim that ':' cannot forge encodeType boundaries

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Member-name validation remains strict

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CHANGELOG labels this as a routine compatibility change, not a security fix

Risk score

Why this scored 21/100

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Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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