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Merge remote-tracking branch 'agent/benma-agent/require-20-byte-eip712-address'

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Marko Bencun

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'agent/benma-agent/require-20-byte-eip712-address'
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit tightens validation for Ethereum addresses used when signing typed messages (EIP-712). Previously, an address of any hex length after the '0x' prefix was accepted and padded to 32 bytes. Now only exactly 20-byte (40 hex character) addresses are allowed. This prevents malformed or truncated addresses from being silently encoded and signed, which could lead to a user approving a signature for an unintended address or contract.

Recommended action

Treat as a security-relevant hardening fix. Ensure the fix is included in firmware releases and consider whether prior versions could have produced signatures over non-standard address encodings that downstream verifiers might misinterpret. No immediate incident response is indicated by the diff alone.

Security signals we found

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Input validation hardening in cryptographic signing path

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Explicit length check on Ethereum address before encoding

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EIP-712 typed message signing affected

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Potential silent acceptance of malformed/truncated addresses removed

Risk score

Why this scored 59/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 18/30
Exploitability 12/25
Stealth signal 8/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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