harden: verify all approval fields and make failed signing retryable (closes #174)

verifySignedTx compared only from, to, value and data, so a signed
transaction could differ from the approval in chain id, nonce, gas limit
or any fee field and still be broadcast. Worse, it named the fields it
checked and so admitted every field it did not name: a type 4 artifact
carrying an EIP-7702 authorization passed verification, paying the
approved amount to the approved recipient and, in the same transaction,
permanently installing another contract's code at the signer's own
account.

The check is now an allowlist in both directions. The transaction type
must be 0, 1 or 2 — the only types this wallet signs — so no later
EIP-2718 type can bring a field along; authorizationList, blobs, blob
commitments and blob gas fees are refused by name; and the access list
is compared with the approval. Every consequential field is compared and
any mismatch refuses outright: the chain id against the selected network
(and against the approval when the page fixed one), plus nonce, gas
limit, gasPrice, maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas wherever the
approval carries a value, together with the fee mechanism the approval
implies. Fields the approval does not carry are populated locally by the
popup and have no approved value to compare against, so they are held to
absolute ceilings instead. Verification then closes by rebuilding the
transaction from exactly those checked fields and comparing the unsigned
bytes, so an artifact carrying anything this module does not account for
is refused without having to be named first.

An approved value that is not a number now refuses like every other
quantity rather than escaping as a raw BigInt conversion error, which
was reported as retryable and left a live button that could never
succeed.

A failed signing attempt also left a button that could not succeed: the
background deleted the approval before it broadcast, so a retry found
nothing to sign. The approval is now retired once the request has an
outcome, and the background tells the popup which stage failed. A popup
that could not sign is retryable; a mismatch spends the approval; a
failed broadcast is terminal, because the node may have accepted the
transaction and still failed to answer and the popup's retry re-signs at
a freshly fetched nonce rather than re-broadcasting the same bytes,
which would send the approved transfer twice.

TODO.md

@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ undefined identifiers, which is how
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-08-11: Approval verification became an allowlist — transaction type
+  restricted to 0/1/2 so an EIP-7702 delegation can no longer ride along on an
+  approved transfer, every consequential field compared, and the artifact
+  re-serialized from the checked fields alone; broadcast failure is now terminal
+  ([#174](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/174)).
 - 2026-08-11: Policy compliance sweep — conditional verbose test rerun, local
   Tailwind binary instead of `npx`, `--frozen-lockfile` on `make install`, and
   the Makefile-only targets documented in the README

src/background/index.js

@@ -13,7 +13,15 @@ const {
 } = require("../shared/state");
 const { refreshBalances, getProvider } = require("../shared/balances");
 const { debugFetch } = require("../shared/log");
-const { verifySignedTx, verifySignature } = require("../shared/approvalVerify");
+const {
+    verifySignedTx,
+    verifySignature,
+    failureIsRetryable,
+    describeTxFailure,
+    TX_STAGE_SIGN,
+    TX_STAGE_VERIFY,
+    TX_STAGE_BROADCAST,
+} = require("../shared/approvalVerify");
 const {
     isPhishingDomain,
     updatePhishingList,
@@ -100,6 +108,15 @@ function resetPopupUrl() {
     }
 }
 
+// Retire a pending approval. Only called once the request it belongs to has
+// an outcome: an approval that failed in a way the user can retry stays in
+// pendingApprovals, so a second attempt signs the same approved payload
+// instead of finding nothing to sign.
+function finishApproval(id) {
+    delete pendingApprovals[id];
+    resetPopupUrl();
+}
+
 // Open approval in a separate popup window.
 // This is the primary mechanism for tx/sign approvals (triggered programmatically,
 // not from a user gesture) and the fallback for site-connection approvals.
@@ -713,21 +730,25 @@ runtime.onMessage.addListener((msg, sender, sendResponse) => {
     if (msg.type === "AUTISTMASK_TX_RESPONSE") {
         const approval = pendingApprovals[msg.id];
         if (!approval) return false;
-        delete pendingApprovals[msg.id];
-        resetPopupUrl();
 
         if (!msg.approved) {
+            finishApproval(msg.id);
             approval.resolve({
                 error: { code: 4001, message: "User rejected the request." },
             });
             return true;
         }
 
-        // The popup signs; it reports back here when it could not. Fail the
+        // The popup signs; it reports back here when it could not. Keep the
-        // request the same way this handler used to when it did the signing.
+        // approval so the user can correct the problem and try again with the
+        // transaction they already saw.
         if (msg.error) {
-            approval.resolve({ error: { message: msg.error } });
+            const outcome = describeTxFailure(TX_STAGE_SIGN, msg.error);
-            sendResponse({ error: msg.error });
+            sendResponse({
+                error: outcome.error,
+                retryable: outcome.retryable,
+                stage: TX_STAGE_SIGN,
+            });
             return false;
         }
 
@@ -737,22 +758,52 @@ runtime.onMessage.addListener((msg, sender, sendResponse) => {
                 const activeAddress = await getActiveAddress();
                 // The popup holds the secret, but the background stays the
                 // authority on what is broadcast: the raw transaction must be
-                // the approved one, signed by the approved address.
+                // the approved one, signed by the approved address, on the
+                // network that is selected.
                 verifySignedTx(
                     msg.rawSignedTx,
                     approval.txParams,
                     activeAddress,
+                    currentNetwork().chainId,
                 );
+            } catch (e) {
+                // A signed transaction that is not the approved one is not
+                // retried against that approval; it is refused outright.
+                // Anything else that failed before the check ran is the
+                // user's to retry.
+                const outcome = describeTxFailure(TX_STAGE_VERIFY, e);
+                if (outcome.spendApproval) {
+                    finishApproval(msg.id);
+                    approval.resolve({ error: { message: outcome.error } });
+                }
+                sendResponse({
+                    error: outcome.error,
+                    retryable: outcome.retryable,
+                    stage: TX_STAGE_VERIFY,
+                });
+                return;
+            }
+
+            try {
                 const provider = getProvider(state.rpcUrl);
                 const tx = await provider.broadcastTransaction(msg.rawSignedTx);
+                finishApproval(msg.id);
                 approval.resolve({ txHash: tx.hash });
                 sendResponse({ txHash: tx.hash });
             } catch (e) {
-                const errMsg = e.shortMessage || e.message;
+                // Terminal, never retried: the node may have accepted the
-                approval.resolve({
+                // transaction and still failed to answer, and the popup's
-                    error: { message: errMsg },
+                // retry re-signs at a freshly fetched nonce rather than
+                // re-broadcasting these bytes. Retrying would send the
+                // approved transfer a second time.
+                const outcome = describeTxFailure(TX_STAGE_BROADCAST, e);
+                finishApproval(msg.id);
+                approval.resolve({ error: { message: outcome.error } });
+                sendResponse({
+                    error: outcome.error,
+                    retryable: outcome.retryable,
+                    stage: TX_STAGE_BROADCAST,
                 });
-                sendResponse({ error: errMsg });
             }
         })();
         return true;
@@ -761,21 +812,20 @@ runtime.onMessage.addListener((msg, sender, sendResponse) => {
     if (msg.type === "AUTISTMASK_SIGN_RESPONSE") {
         const approval = pendingApprovals[msg.id];
         if (!approval) return false;
-        delete pendingApprovals[msg.id];
-        resetPopupUrl();
 
         if (!msg.approved) {
+            finishApproval(msg.id);
             approval.resolve({
                 error: { code: 4001, message: "User rejected the request." },
             });
             return true;
         }
 
-        // The popup signs; it reports back here when it could not. Fail the
+        // The popup signs; it reports back here when it could not. Keep the
-        // request the same way this handler used to when it did the signing.
+        // approval so the user can correct the problem and try again with the
+        // message they already saw.
         if (msg.error) {
-            approval.resolve({ error: { message: msg.error } });
+            sendResponse({ error: msg.error, retryable: true });
-            sendResponse({ error: msg.error });
             return false;
         }
 
@@ -788,14 +838,17 @@ runtime.onMessage.addListener((msg, sender, sendResponse) => {
                 // address.
                 const signature = msg.signature;
                 verifySignature(approval.signParams, signature, activeAddress);
+                finishApproval(msg.id);
                 approval.resolve({ signature });
                 sendResponse({ signature });
             } catch (e) {
                 const errMsg = e.shortMessage || e.message;
-                approval.resolve({
+                const retryable = failureIsRetryable(e);
-                    error: { message: errMsg },
+                if (!retryable) {
-                });
+                    finishApproval(msg.id);
-                sendResponse({ error: errMsg });
+                    approval.resolve({ error: { message: errMsg } });
+                }
+                sendResponse({ error: errMsg, retryable });
             }
         })();
         return true;

src/popup/views/approval.js

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ const { TOKEN_BY_ADDRESS } = require("../../shared/tokenList");
 const { decryptWithPassword } = require("../../shared/vault");
 const { getSignerForAddress } = require("../../shared/wallet");
 const { getProvider } = require("../../shared/balances");
+const { describeSigningFailure } = require("../../shared/approvalVerify");
 const txStatus = require("./txStatus");
 const uniswap = require("../../shared/uniswap");
 const runtime =
@@ -546,10 +547,20 @@ function init(ctx) {
         runtime.sendMessage(payload, (response) => {
             if (response && response.txHash) {
                 txStatus.showWait(pendingTxDetails, response.txHash);
+                return;
+            }
+            // A retryable failure leaves the approval pending in the
+            // background, so stay on this screen with a live button rather
+            // than sending the user to a dead end.
+            const outcome = describeSigningFailure(
+                response,
+                "The transaction could not be sent.",
+            );
+            if (outcome.retryable) {
+                showError("approve-tx-error", outcome.message);
+                setTxButtonBusy(false);
             } else {
-                const msg =
+                txStatus.showError(pendingTxDetails, null, outcome.message);
-                    (response && response.error) || "Transaction failed.";
-                txStatus.showError(pendingTxDetails, null, msg);
             }
         });
     });
@@ -644,11 +655,18 @@ function init(ctx) {
         runtime.sendMessage(payload, (response) => {
             if (response && response.signature) {
                 window.close();
-            } else {
+                return;
-                const msg = (response && response.error) || "Signing failed.";
-                showError("approve-sign-error", msg);
-                setSignButtonBusy(false);
             }
+            // The button comes back only when the approval is still pending in
+            // the background; otherwise it stays disabled and the message says
+            // why, because a control that cannot succeed must not look like it
+            // can.
+            const outcome = describeSigningFailure(
+                response,
+                "The message could not be signed.",
+            );
+            showError("approve-sign-error", outcome.message);
+            if (outcome.retryable) setSignButtonBusy(false);
         });
     });
 

src/shared/approvalVerify.js

@@ -7,17 +7,139 @@
 // the signer from the artifact and checks it against the approval it is
 // holding before acting on it. All recovery is delegated to ethers.
 //
+// The check is an allowlist, in both directions, because a denylist cannot be
+// correct against a transaction format that keeps gaining fields:
+//
+//  - only transaction types 0, 1 and 2 are accepted. Every later EIP-2718 type
+//    adds a field with consequences of its own — EIP-7702's authorizationList
+//    rewrites the code at the signer's own account, EIP-4844's blob
+//    commitments carry a separate fee — and a check that enumerates the fields
+//    it refuses admits every one of them by default.
+//  - after the per-field comparisons, the artifact is rebuilt from those
+//    checked fields and nothing else, and the two are compared byte for byte.
+//    Anything the artifact carries that this module does not name is absent
+//    from the rebuild and changes the bytes, so the final assertion is that
+//    the artifact *is* the approved transaction, not merely that it is not one
+//    of the tampered shapes that were thought of.
+//
+// Every consequential field is compared, and a mismatch is a refusal to act,
+// never a warning: what the user approved is what gets broadcast, or nothing
+// does.
+//
+// Fields the approval does not carry are not treated as zero. The popup
+// populates nonce, gas limit, fee and chain id through populateTransaction()
+// when the requesting page did not fix them, so there is no approved value to
+// compare against; treating absent as zero would refuse every legitimate
+// transaction. Those fields are instead held to the absolute ceilings below,
+// and the chain id is always checked against the selected network rather than
+// against the approval alone, which is what makes a cross-chain replay
+// impossible.
+//
 // Every failure message is a full sentence, because these strings are shown to
 // the user and returned to the dApp.
 
 const {
     Transaction,
+    accessListify,
     getAddress,
     getBytes,
     verifyMessage,
     verifyTypedData,
 } = require("ethers");
 
+// The only transaction types this wallet signs: legacy, EIP-2930 and
+// EIP-1559. populateTransaction() produces nothing else, so nothing else can
+// be an artifact of an approval this wallet raised.
+const ALLOWED_TX_TYPES = [0, 1, 2];
+
+// The serialized fields of each allowed type, which is also the complete set
+// of fields the checks below compare or bound. The artifact is rebuilt from
+// exactly these at the end of verification and compared byte for byte, so a
+// field outside this table cannot ride along unexamined.
+const SERIALIZED_FIELDS = {
+    0: ["chainId", "nonce", "gasPrice", "gasLimit", "to", "value", "data"],
+    1: [
+        "chainId",
+        "nonce",
+        "gasPrice",
+        "gasLimit",
+        "to",
+        "value",
+        "data",
+        "accessList",
+    ],
+    2: [
+        "chainId",
+        "nonce",
+        "maxPriorityFeePerGas",
+        "maxFeePerGas",
+        "gasLimit",
+        "to",
+        "value",
+        "data",
+        "accessList",
+    ],
+};
+
+// Fields no allowed type may carry. The type allowlist already excludes every
+// type that defines them, and the structural check at the end of verification
+// would catch them anyway; they are named here so that an artifact carrying
+// one is refused with a message that says what it was.
+const FORBIDDEN_FIELDS = [
+    {
+        key: "authorizationList",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction would hand the signing account over to another contract, which was not approved.",
+    },
+    {
+        key: "blobVersionedHashes",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction carries blob commitments, which were not approved.",
+    },
+    {
+        key: "blobs",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction carries blobs, which were not approved.",
+    },
+    {
+        key: "maxFeePerBlobGas",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction carries a blob gas fee, which was not approved.",
+    },
+];
+
+// Above the block gas limit of every supported network (see networks.js), so
+// no transaction that could ever be included is refused by it.
+const MAX_GAS_LIMIT = 100000000n;
+
+// 100,000 gwei per gas: orders of magnitude above the highest fee either
+// supported network has produced, and low enough to catch a fee that would
+// hand the validator the balance.
+const MAX_FEE_PER_GAS = 100000000000000n;
+
+// A refusal to act on an artifact: it is not the thing that was approved, so
+// the approval it was offered against is spent and must not be retried. Every
+// throw in this module is one of these; the background distinguishes them from
+// transient failures (a busy node, a failed broadcast), which leave the
+// approval standing so the user can try again.
+class ApprovalMismatchError extends Error {
+    constructor(message) {
+        super(message);
+        this.name = "ApprovalMismatchError";
+        this.approvalMismatch = true;
+    }
+}
+
+function refuse(message) {
+    return new ApprovalMismatchError(message);
+}
+
+// Whether a signing failure leaves the approval usable. Anything that is not a
+// mismatch is the user's to correct and retry.
+function failureIsRetryable(err) {
+    return !(err && err.approvalMismatch === true);
+}
+
 // Case-insensitive address comparison that tolerates absent values on either
 // side. Two absent addresses compare equal (contract creation has no `to`).
 function sameAddress(a, b) {
@@ -31,11 +153,64 @@ function sameAddress(a, b) {
     }
 }
 
+// Whether the approval fixed a value for a field at all.
+function present(v) {
+    return v !== null && v !== undefined && v !== "";
+}
+
+// Whether a field carries anything at all. An empty array is nothing: ethers
+// reports an absent access list on a type 2 transaction as `[]`.
+function carriesValue(v) {
+    if (!present(v)) return false;
+    if (Array.isArray(v)) return v.length > 0;
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Normalize a quantity that must be present, refusing anything that is not a
+// number: an approval carrying junk in a fee field cannot be compared, and an
+// uncomparable field is a refusal rather than a pass.
+function normalizeQuantity(v, label) {
+    try {
+        return BigInt(v);
+    } catch {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The approved " +
+                label +
+                " is not a number, so it cannot be" +
+                " compared with the signed transaction.",
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 // Normalize a transaction value (hex string, decimal string, number or
-// bigint) to a bigint. An absent value is zero, matching ethers.
+// bigint) to a bigint. An absent value is zero, matching ethers. The value is
+// page-controlled, so it goes through the same refusal as every other
+// quantity rather than throwing a raw BigInt conversion error.
 function normalizeValue(v) {
-    if (v === null || v === undefined || v === "") return 0n;
+    if (!present(v)) return 0n;
-    return BigInt(v);
+    return normalizeQuantity(v, "value");
+}
+
+// Normalize an access list to a comparable string. An absent or empty list is
+// the empty string, so absent and `[]` are the same thing.
+function normalizeAccessList(v) {
+    if (!carriesValue(v)) return "";
+    let list;
+    try {
+        list = accessListify(v);
+    } catch {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The approved access list is not a valid access list, so it cannot be compared with the signed transaction.",
+        );
+    }
+    return list
+        .map(
+            (entry) =>
+                String(entry.address).toLowerCase() +
+                ":" +
+                entry.storageKeys.map((k) => String(k).toLowerCase()).join(","),
+        )
+        .join(";");
 }
 
 // Normalize call data to a lowercase hex string. Absent data is "0x".
@@ -44,44 +219,198 @@ function normalizeData(v) {
     return String(v).toLowerCase();
 }
 
+// Quantity fields the requesting page may fix in the approval. Each is
+// compared exactly when the approval carries it, and left to the ceilings
+// above when it does not.
+const APPROVED_QUANTITIES = [
+    {
+        key: "nonce",
+        label: "nonce",
+        message: "The signed transaction does not carry the approved nonce.",
+    },
+    {
+        key: "gasLimit",
+        label: "gas limit",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction does not carry the approved gas limit.",
+    },
+    {
+        key: "gasPrice",
+        label: "gas price",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction does not carry the approved gas price.",
+    },
+    {
+        key: "maxFeePerGas",
+        label: "maximum fee per gas",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction does not carry the approved maximum fee per gas.",
+    },
+    {
+        key: "maxPriorityFeePerGas",
+        label: "maximum priority fee per gas",
+        message:
+            "The signed transaction does not carry the approved maximum priority fee per gas.",
+    },
+];
+
+// Refuse a field only a transaction type this wallet does not sign can carry.
+// The type allowlist keeps these unreachable in production, which is exactly
+// what they are for; it also means nothing else exercises them, so this is
+// exported and tested on its own rather than left to be believed.
+function assertNoForbiddenFields(parsed) {
+    for (const field of FORBIDDEN_FIELDS) {
+        if (carriesValue(parsed[field.key])) throw refuse(field.message);
+    }
+}
+
+// Closing structural check. Rebuild the transaction from the fields the
+// comparisons cover, and nothing else, then compare the unsigned bytes. Every
+// field carried by the artifact but absent from the rebuild changes the
+// serialization, so this refuses anything this module does not account for —
+// including a field a future ethers learns to parse onto an allowed type —
+// instead of waving it through by not naming it. Also exported for its own
+// test: nothing reachable today can make the bytes differ.
+function assertNothingUnchecked(parsed) {
+    let rebuilt;
+    try {
+        const fields = { type: parsed.type };
+        for (const key of SERIALIZED_FIELDS[parsed.type]) {
+            fields[key] = parsed[key];
+        }
+        rebuilt = Transaction.from(fields);
+    } catch {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction could not be rebuilt from the fields that were checked, so it cannot be shown to be the approved transaction.",
+        );
+    }
+    if (rebuilt.unsignedSerialized !== parsed.unsignedSerialized) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction carries data beyond the fields that were checked against the approval.",
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 // Assert that a raw signed transaction is the transaction the user approved,
-// signed by the address the approval was raised for. Returns the parsed
+// signed by the address the approval was raised for, on the network that is
-// ethers Transaction on success, throws otherwise.
+// selected. Returns the parsed ethers Transaction on success, throws
-function verifySignedTx(rawSignedTx, txParams, expectedFrom) {
+// otherwise.
+function verifySignedTx(rawSignedTx, txParams, expectedFrom, selectedChainId) {
     if (typeof rawSignedTx !== "string" || !rawSignedTx.startsWith("0x")) {
-        throw new Error("The signed transaction is missing or malformed.");
+        throw refuse("The signed transaction is missing or malformed.");
     }
 
     let parsed;
     try {
         parsed = Transaction.from(rawSignedTx);
     } catch {
-        throw new Error("The signed transaction could not be decoded.");
+        throw refuse("The signed transaction could not be decoded.");
     }
 
     if (!parsed.from) {
-        throw new Error("The signed transaction carries no valid signature.");
+        throw refuse("The signed transaction carries no valid signature.");
     }
     if (!sameAddress(parsed.from, expectedFrom)) {
-        throw new Error(
+        throw refuse(
             "The signed transaction was signed by a different address than the one that was approved.",
         );
     }
+
+    // Before any field is looked at: the type decides which fields exist at
+    // all, so an unrecognised type is refused outright rather than compared
+    // field by field against an approval that cannot describe it.
+    if (!ALLOWED_TX_TYPES.includes(parsed.type)) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction is of a type this wallet does not sign, so what it would do beyond the approved transfer cannot be checked.",
+        );
+    }
+    assertNoForbiddenFields(parsed);
+
+    // The selected network, not the artifact, is the authority on which chain
+    // this may be broadcast to; without it nothing can be verified.
+    if (!present(selectedChainId)) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The selected network is unknown, so the signed transaction cannot be checked against it.",
+        );
+    }
+    if (parsed.chainId !== normalizeQuantity(selectedChainId, "network")) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction is for a different network than the one that is selected.",
+        );
+    }
+    if (
+        present(txParams.chainId) &&
+        parsed.chainId !== normalizeQuantity(txParams.chainId, "network")
+    ) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction is for a different network than the one that was approved.",
+        );
+    }
+
     if (!sameAddress(parsed.to, txParams.to)) {
-        throw new Error(
+        throw refuse(
             "The signed transaction does not go to the approved recipient.",
         );
     }
     if (normalizeValue(parsed.value) !== normalizeValue(txParams.value)) {
-        throw new Error(
+        throw refuse(
             "The signed transaction does not carry the approved value.",
         );
     }
     if (normalizeData(parsed.data) !== normalizeData(txParams.data)) {
-        throw new Error(
+        throw refuse(
             "The signed transaction does not carry the approved call data.",
         );
     }
+    if (
+        normalizeAccessList(parsed.accessList) !==
+        normalizeAccessList(txParams.accessList)
+    ) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction does not carry the approved access list.",
+        );
+    }
+
+    // An approval that fixed EIP-1559 fees must not be signed as a legacy
+    // transaction, and vice versa: the fee the user agreed to is only
+    // meaningful under the mechanism it was quoted in.
+    const approvedEip1559 =
+        present(txParams.maxFeePerGas) ||
+        present(txParams.maxPriorityFeePerGas);
+    const approvedLegacy = present(txParams.gasPrice);
+    const signedEip1559 = parsed.type === 2;
+    if (
+        (approvedEip1559 && !signedEip1559) ||
+        (approvedLegacy && signedEip1559)
+    ) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction does not use the approved fee mechanism.",
+        );
+    }
+
+    for (const field of APPROVED_QUANTITIES) {
+        if (!present(txParams[field.key])) continue;
+        const approved = normalizeQuantity(txParams[field.key], field.label);
+        if (normalizeQuantity(parsed[field.key], field.label) !== approved) {
+            throw refuse(field.message);
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (parsed.gasLimit > MAX_GAS_LIMIT) {
+        throw refuse(
+            "The signed transaction sets a gas limit no network this wallet supports can accept.",
+        );
+    }
+    for (const key of ["gasPrice", "maxFeePerGas", "maxPriorityFeePerGas"]) {
+        const fee = parsed[key];
+        if (fee !== null && fee !== undefined && fee > MAX_FEE_PER_GAS) {
+            throw refuse(
+                "The signed transaction sets a fee per gas far above any plausible value.",
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    assertNothingUnchecked(parsed);
 
     return parsed;
 }
@@ -91,7 +420,7 @@ function verifySignedTx(rawSignedTx, txParams, expectedFrom) {
 // address on success, throws otherwise.
 function verifySignature(signParams, signature, expectedFrom) {
     if (typeof signature !== "string" || !signature.startsWith("0x")) {
-        throw new Error("The signature is missing or malformed.");
+        throw refuse("The signature is missing or malformed.");
     }
 
     let recovered;
@@ -109,11 +438,11 @@ function verifySignature(signParams, signature, expectedFrom) {
             recovered = verifyTypedData(domain, types, message, signature);
         }
     } catch {
-        throw new Error("The signature could not be verified.");
+        throw refuse("The signature could not be verified.");
     }
 
     if (!sameAddress(recovered, expectedFrom)) {
-        throw new Error(
+        throw refuse(
             "The signature was produced by a different address than the one that was approved.",
         );
     }
@@ -121,4 +450,83 @@ function verifySignature(signParams, signature, expectedFrom) {
     return recovered;
 }
 
-module.exports = { verifySignedTx, verifySignature, sameAddress };
+// The stage a transaction approval failed at. Which stage it is decides
+// whether the approval survives the failure.
+const TX_STAGE_SIGN = "sign";
+const TX_STAGE_VERIFY = "verify";
+const TX_STAGE_BROADCAST = "broadcast";
+
+function errorText(err) {
+    if (typeof err === "string" && err !== "") return err;
+    if (err && (err.shortMessage || err.message)) {
+        return err.shortMessage || err.message;
+    }
+    return "The transaction could not be sent.";
+}
+
+// What the background does with a pending transaction approval after a failed
+// attempt: what it tells the popup, and whether the approval is spent
+// (resolved to the requesting page as an error and deleted) or left standing
+// so the user can try the transaction they already saw again.
+//
+//  - sign: the popup could not produce an artifact, almost always a wrong
+//    password. Nothing left the extension, so the approval stands.
+//  - verify: a mismatch is a refusal and spends the approval — an artifact
+//    that is not the approved transaction must never be retried against that
+//    approval. Anything else failed before the check ran and is retryable.
+//  - broadcast: always terminal. A broadcast that throws after the node
+//    accepted the transaction is routine (a timeout, a dropped response, a
+//    node answering "already known"), and the popup's retry does not
+//    re-broadcast these bytes — it re-runs populateTransaction() and signs
+//    again at a freshly fetched pending-tag nonce. Retrying would therefore
+//    put a second transaction on the chain for one approval.
+function describeTxFailure(stage, err) {
+    const error = errorText(err);
+    const retryable =
+        stage === TX_STAGE_SIGN ||
+        (stage === TX_STAGE_VERIFY && failureIsRetryable(err));
+    return { error, retryable, spendApproval: !retryable };
+}
+
+// What the popup shows and does after the background reports a failed signing
+// attempt. A retryable failure leaves the approval pending in the background,
+// so the button goes back to being usable; a refusal spent the approval, and
+// the popup says so rather than offering a button that cannot succeed.
+//
+// A failed broadcast gets its own wording: the transaction may already be on
+// the network, so telling the user to start again from the site is exactly the
+// wrong instruction.
+function describeSigningFailure(response, fallbackMessage) {
+    let message = (response && response.error) || fallbackMessage;
+    if (!/[.!?]$/.test(message)) message += ".";
+    const retryable = !!(response && response.retryable);
+    if (!retryable) {
+        message +=
+            response && response.stage === TX_STAGE_BROADCAST
+                ? " The transaction may still have reached the network." +
+                  " Check the account before sending it again."
+                : " This request can no longer be signed. Please start it" +
+                  " again from the site.";
+    }
+    return { message, retryable };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    verifySignedTx,
+    verifySignature,
+    assertNoForbiddenFields,
+    assertNothingUnchecked,
+    sameAddress,
+    failureIsRetryable,
+    describeTxFailure,
+    describeSigningFailure,
+    ApprovalMismatchError,
+    ALLOWED_TX_TYPES,
+    SERIALIZED_FIELDS,
+    FORBIDDEN_FIELDS,
+    TX_STAGE_SIGN,
+    TX_STAGE_VERIFY,
+    TX_STAGE_BROADCAST,
+    MAX_GAS_LIMIT,
+    MAX_FEE_PER_GAS,
+};

tests/approvalVerify.test.js

@@ -2,7 +2,20 @@ const { Network, Transaction, Wallet } = require("ethers");
 const {
     verifySignedTx,
     verifySignature,
+    assertNoForbiddenFields,
+    assertNothingUnchecked,
     sameAddress,
+    failureIsRetryable,
+    describeTxFailure,
+    describeSigningFailure,
+    ALLOWED_TX_TYPES,
+    SERIALIZED_FIELDS,
+    FORBIDDEN_FIELDS,
+    TX_STAGE_SIGN,
+    TX_STAGE_VERIFY,
+    TX_STAGE_BROADCAST,
+    MAX_GAS_LIMIT,
+    MAX_FEE_PER_GAS,
 } = require("../src/shared/approvalVerify");
 const { getSignerForAddress } = require("../src/shared/wallet");
 
@@ -18,6 +31,10 @@ const other = new Wallet(OTHER_KEY);
 const RECIPIENT = "0x66133E8ea0f5D1d612D2502a968757D1048c214a";
 const OTHER_RECIPIENT = "0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7";
 
+// The chain id of the selected network, as networks.js carries it.
+const SELECTED = "0x1";
+const SEPOLIA = "0xaa36a7";
+
 // Approved parameters as a dApp would supply them over eth_sendTransaction.
 const TX_PARAMS = {
     from: signer.address,
@@ -27,25 +44,38 @@ const TX_PARAMS = {
     gas: "0x5208",
 };
 
+// The values populateTransaction() fills in when the dApp fixed none of them.
+const POPULATED = {
+    chainId: 1,
+    nonce: 7,
+    gasLimit: 100000n,
+    maxFeePerGas: 2000000000n,
+    maxPriorityFeePerGas: 1000000000n,
+    type: 2,
+};
+
 // Build a signable transaction from approved params. The popup does the same
 // thing through populateTransaction(); here the fields are fixed so the test
-// needs no provider.
+// needs no provider. `overrides` stands in for what a tampered or misbuilt
-function txFor(params) {
+// popup would put on the wire.
+function txFor(params, overrides) {
     return {
-        chainId: 1,
+        ...POPULATED,
-        nonce: 7,
-        gasLimit: 100000n,
-        maxFeePerGas: 2000000000n,
-        maxPriorityFeePerGas: 1000000000n,
-        type: 2,
         to: params.to,
         value: params.value === undefined ? 0n : BigInt(params.value),
         data: params.data || "0x",
+        ...(overrides || {}),
     };
 }
 
-async function signedFor(params, withWallet) {
+async function signedFor(params, withWallet, overrides) {
-    return (withWallet || signer).signTransaction(txFor(params));
+    return (withWallet || signer).signTransaction(txFor(params, overrides));
+}
+
+// Sign the approved transaction with one field changed from what was
+// populated, which is the shape of every tamper case below.
+async function signedWith(overrides) {
+    return signedFor(TX_PARAMS, signer, overrides);
 }
 
 describe("sameAddress", () => {
@@ -71,7 +101,7 @@ describe("sameAddress", () => {
 describe("verifySignedTx", () => {
     test("accepts the approved transaction signed by the approved address", async () => {
         const raw = await signedFor(TX_PARAMS);
-        const parsed = verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address);
+        const parsed = verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED);
         expect(parsed.from).toBe(signer.address);
         expect(parsed.hash).toBe(Transaction.from(raw).hash);
     });
@@ -79,14 +109,16 @@ describe("verifySignedTx", () => {
     test("accepts a contract creation with no recipient", async () => {
         const params = { to: undefined, value: "0x0", data: "0x600160005500" };
         const raw = await signedFor(params);
-        expect(() => verifySignedTx(raw, params, signer.address)).not.toThrow();
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, params, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
     });
 
     test("accepts an absent value as zero", async () => {
         const approved = { to: RECIPIENT, data: "0x" };
         const raw = await signedFor(approved);
         expect(() =>
-            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address),
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
         ).not.toThrow();
     });
 
@@ -94,7 +126,7 @@ describe("verifySignedTx", () => {
         const approved = { to: RECIPIENT, value: "0x0", data: "0xDEADBEEF" };
         const raw = await signedFor(approved);
         expect(() =>
-            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address),
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
         ).not.toThrow();
     });
 
@@ -103,9 +135,9 @@ describe("verifySignedTx", () => {
             ...TX_PARAMS,
             to: OTHER_RECIPIENT,
         });
-        expect(() => verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address)).toThrow(
+        expect(() =>
-            /approved recipient/,
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
-        );
+        ).toThrow(/approved recipient/);
     });
 
     test("rejects an inflated value", async () => {
@@ -113,48 +145,48 @@ describe("verifySignedTx", () => {
             ...TX_PARAMS,
             value: "0x4563918244f40000",
         });
-        expect(() => verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address)).toThrow(
+        expect(() =>
-            /approved value/,
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
-        );
+        ).toThrow(/approved value/);
     });
 
     test("rejects substituted call data", async () => {
         const raw = await signedFor({ ...TX_PARAMS, data: "0xc0ffee" });
-        expect(() => verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address)).toThrow(
+        expect(() =>
-            /approved call data/,
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
-        );
+        ).toThrow(/approved call data/);
     });
 
     test("rejects a transaction signed by a different address", async () => {
         const raw = await signedFor(TX_PARAMS, other);
-        expect(() => verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address)).toThrow(
+        expect(() =>
-            /different address/,
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
-        );
+        ).toThrow(/different address/);
     });
 
     test("rejects an unsigned transaction", () => {
         const unsigned = Transaction.from(txFor(TX_PARAMS)).unsignedSerialized;
         expect(() =>
-            verifySignedTx(unsigned, TX_PARAMS, signer.address),
+            verifySignedTx(unsigned, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
         ).toThrow(/no valid signature/);
     });
 
     test("rejects a missing or malformed payload", () => {
         expect(() =>
-            verifySignedTx(undefined, TX_PARAMS, signer.address),
+            verifySignedTx(undefined, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
         ).toThrow(/missing or malformed/);
-        expect(() => verifySignedTx("nope", TX_PARAMS, signer.address)).toThrow(
-            /missing or malformed/,
-        );
         expect(() =>
-            verifySignedTx("0xc0ffee", TX_PARAMS, signer.address),
+            verifySignedTx("nope", TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/missing or malformed/);
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx("0xc0ffee", TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
         ).toThrow(/could not be decoded/);
     });
 
     test("every rejection message is a full sentence", async () => {
         const raw = await signedFor({ ...TX_PARAMS, to: OTHER_RECIPIENT });
         try {
-            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address);
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED);
             throw new Error("expected a rejection");
         } catch (e) {
             expect(e.message).toMatch(/^[A-Z].*\.$/);
@@ -162,6 +194,552 @@ describe("verifySignedTx", () => {
     });
 });
 
+// One case per consequential field: the field alone differs from what was
+// approved, and that alone must refuse the signature.
+describe("verifySignedTx field comparison", () => {
+    test("rejects a chain id that is not the selected network", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({ chainId: 11155111 });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/different network than the one that is selected/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a chain id that is not the approved one", async () => {
+        // Selected network and signed chain id agree; the dApp asked for a
+        // different chain, so the artifact is not what was approved.
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, chainId: SEPOLIA };
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/different network than the one that was approved/);
+    });
+
+    test("refuses when the selected network is unknown", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, undefined),
+        ).toThrow(/selected network is unknown/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a substituted nonce", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, nonce: 7 };
+        const raw = await signedWith({ nonce: 8 });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved nonce/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a substituted gas limit", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, gasLimit: "0x186a0" };
+        const raw = await signedWith({ gasLimit: 250000n });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved gas limit/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a substituted maximum fee per gas", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, maxFeePerGas: "0x77359400" };
+        const raw = await signedWith({ maxFeePerGas: 900000000000n });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved maximum fee per gas/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a substituted maximum priority fee per gas", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, maxPriorityFeePerGas: "0x3b9aca00" };
+        const raw = await signedWith({ maxPriorityFeePerGas: 1500000000n });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved maximum priority fee per gas/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a substituted legacy gas price", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, gasPrice: "0x77359400" };
+        const legacy = {
+            type: 0,
+            gasPrice: 9000000000n,
+            maxFeePerGas: null,
+            maxPriorityFeePerGas: null,
+        };
+        const raw = await signedWith(legacy);
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved gas price/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects an approved legacy fee signed as an EIP-1559 fee", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, gasPrice: "0x77359400" };
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved fee mechanism/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects an approved EIP-1559 fee signed as a legacy fee", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, maxFeePerGas: "0x77359400" };
+        const raw = await signedWith({
+            type: 0,
+            gasPrice: 2000000000n,
+            maxFeePerGas: null,
+            maxPriorityFeePerGas: null,
+        });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved fee mechanism/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a gas limit above anything a supported network accepts", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({ gasLimit: MAX_GAS_LIMIT + 1n });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/gas limit no network this wallet supports/);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects an absurd fee per gas the approval never fixed", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({
+            maxFeePerGas: MAX_FEE_PER_GAS + 1n,
+            maxPriorityFeePerGas: MAX_FEE_PER_GAS + 1n,
+        });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/fee per gas far above any plausible value/);
+    });
+
+    test("every field mismatch is a refusal, not a warning", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({ nonce: 8 });
+        try {
+            verifySignedTx(
+                raw,
+                { ...TX_PARAMS, nonce: 7 },
+                signer.address,
+                SELECTED,
+            );
+            throw new Error("expected a rejection");
+        } catch (e) {
+            expect(e.approvalMismatch).toBe(true);
+            expect(e.message).toMatch(/^[A-Z].*\.$/);
+        }
+    });
+});
+
+// The transaction type decides which fields exist, so an artifact of a type
+// this wallet does not sign carries consequences the approval cannot describe
+// and none of the field comparisons can see. The approval used here is the
+// ordinary dApp shape with no fee fields — the common case, since
+// populateTransaction() fills them — which is exactly the case the
+// fee-mechanism check cannot catch by accident.
+describe("verifySignedTx transaction type", () => {
+    const BARE_APPROVAL = {
+        from: signer.address,
+        to: RECIPIENT,
+        value: "0x2386f26fc10000",
+        data: "0x",
+    };
+
+    // An EIP-7702 artifact that pays the approved amount to the approved
+    // recipient and, in the same transaction, installs the attacker's code at
+    // the signer's own account for good. Every field the approval screen shows
+    // matches; only the type and the authorization list do not.
+    test("refuses a type 4 artifact that delegates the signer's own account", async () => {
+        const authorization = await signer.authorize({
+            address: OTHER_RECIPIENT,
+            chainId: 1,
+            nonce: 8,
+        });
+        const raw = await signedFor(BARE_APPROVAL, signer, {
+            type: 4,
+            authorizationList: [authorization],
+        });
+        const parsed = Transaction.from(raw);
+        expect(parsed.type).toBe(4);
+        expect(parsed.authorizationList[0].address).toBe(OTHER_RECIPIENT);
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, BARE_APPROVAL, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/type this wallet does not sign/);
+    });
+
+    test("refuses a type 3 blob artifact", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedFor(BARE_APPROVAL, signer, {
+            type: 3,
+            maxFeePerBlobGas: 1000000000n,
+            blobVersionedHashes: ["0x01" + "ab".repeat(31)],
+        });
+        expect(Transaction.from(raw).type).toBe(3);
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, BARE_APPROVAL, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/type this wallet does not sign/);
+    });
+
+    test("refuses every type outside the allowlist, not just the known ones", async () => {
+        for (const type of [3, 4]) {
+            expect(ALLOWED_TX_TYPES).not.toContain(type);
+        }
+        expect(ALLOWED_TX_TYPES).toEqual([0, 1, 2]);
+    });
+
+    test("a type refusal is a refusal, not a warning", async () => {
+        const authorization = await signer.authorize({
+            address: OTHER_RECIPIENT,
+            chainId: 1,
+            nonce: 8,
+        });
+        const raw = await signedFor(BARE_APPROVAL, signer, {
+            type: 4,
+            authorizationList: [authorization],
+        });
+        try {
+            verifySignedTx(raw, BARE_APPROVAL, signer.address, SELECTED);
+            throw new Error("expected a rejection");
+        } catch (e) {
+            expect(e.approvalMismatch).toBe(true);
+            expect(e.message).toMatch(/^[A-Z].*\.$/);
+        }
+    });
+
+    test("accepts a legacy type 0 transaction", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...BARE_APPROVAL, gasPrice: "0x77359400" };
+        const raw = await signedFor(approved, signer, {
+            type: 0,
+            gasPrice: 2000000000n,
+            maxFeePerGas: null,
+            maxPriorityFeePerGas: null,
+        });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("accepts a type 1 transaction whose access list is the approved one", async () => {
+        const accessList = [{ address: OTHER_RECIPIENT, storageKeys: [] }];
+        const approved = {
+            ...BARE_APPROVAL,
+            gasPrice: "0x77359400",
+            accessList,
+        };
+        const raw = await signedFor(approved, signer, {
+            type: 1,
+            gasPrice: 2000000000n,
+            maxFeePerGas: null,
+            maxPriorityFeePerGas: null,
+            accessList,
+        });
+        expect(Transaction.from(raw).type).toBe(1);
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("refuses an access list the approval never carried", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedFor(BARE_APPROVAL, signer, {
+            accessList: [{ address: OTHER_RECIPIENT, storageKeys: [] }],
+        });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, BARE_APPROVAL, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).toThrow(/approved access list/);
+    });
+
+    test("treats an absent access list and an empty one as the same thing", async () => {
+        const approved = { ...BARE_APPROVAL, accessList: [] };
+        const raw = await signedFor(BARE_APPROVAL, signer, {});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+});
+
+// The allowlist is only exhaustive while it accounts for every field an
+// artifact can carry. These tests are what makes that claim checkable rather
+// than asserted.
+describe("verifySignedTx exhaustiveness", () => {
+    // Every accessor ethers exposes on a parsed transaction, and where this
+    // module deals with it. If an ethers upgrade adds a transaction field,
+    // this fails and forces a decision about it instead of letting it default
+    // to unchecked.
+    test("every field ethers can parse is accounted for", () => {
+        const derived = [
+            // Recovered from the signature or computed from the payload, not
+            // independent content: covered by the signer check and by the
+            // fields below.
+            "from",
+            "fromPublicKey",
+            "hash",
+            "serialized",
+            "signature",
+            "type",
+            "typeName",
+            "unsignedHash",
+            "unsignedSerialized",
+            // Blob sidecar machinery, meaningful only alongside `blobs`,
+            // which is refused outright.
+            "kzg",
+            "blobWrapperVersion",
+        ];
+        const accounted = new Set([
+            ...derived,
+            ...FORBIDDEN_FIELDS.map((f) => f.key),
+            ...Object.values(SERIALIZED_FIELDS).flat(),
+        ]);
+        const exposed = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(Transaction.prototype)
+            .filter((name) => {
+                const d = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(
+                    Transaction.prototype,
+                    name,
+                );
+                return d && typeof d.get === "function";
+            })
+            .sort();
+        expect(exposed.filter((name) => !accounted.has(name))).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
+    // The two layers behind the type allowlist. Nothing reachable through
+    // verifySignedTx can trip either of them while the allowlist holds — that
+    // is what they are for — so they are exercised directly rather than taken
+    // on trust.
+    test("a forbidden field is refused even on an allowed type", async () => {
+        const authorization = await signer.authorize({
+            address: OTHER_RECIPIENT,
+            chainId: 1,
+            nonce: 8,
+        });
+        const carriers = {
+            authorizationList: [authorization],
+            blobVersionedHashes: ["0x01" + "ab".repeat(31)],
+            blobs: ["0x00"],
+            maxFeePerBlobGas: 1n,
+        };
+        for (const key of Object.keys(carriers)) {
+            expect(FORBIDDEN_FIELDS.map((f) => f.key)).toContain(key);
+            let thrown;
+            try {
+                assertNoForbiddenFields({ type: 2, [key]: carriers[key] });
+                throw new Error("expected a rejection");
+            } catch (e) {
+                thrown = e;
+            }
+            expect(thrown.approvalMismatch).toBe(true);
+            expect(thrown.message).toMatch(/^[A-Z].*\.$/);
+        }
+        expect(() => assertNoForbiddenFields({ type: 2 })).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    // Stands in for a future ethers that parses a field this module does not
+    // know about onto an allowed type: every field the module checks is
+    // identical, and the bytes are not.
+    test("an artifact carrying more than the checked fields is refused", async () => {
+        const parsed = Transaction.from(await signedWith({}));
+        const smuggled = { type: parsed.type };
+        for (const key of SERIALIZED_FIELDS[parsed.type]) {
+            smuggled[key] = parsed[key];
+        }
+        smuggled.unsignedSerialized = parsed.unsignedSerialized + "ff";
+        expect(() => assertNothingUnchecked(smuggled)).toThrow(
+            /beyond the fields that were checked/,
+        );
+        expect(() => assertNothingUnchecked(parsed)).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    // The closing check rebuilds the artifact from the fields the module
+    // compared and compares the bytes, so an artifact carrying anything else
+    // is refused without the module having to name it. Assert the rebuild is
+    // faithful for every accepted shape, since a rebuild that dropped a
+    // legitimate field would refuse honest transactions.
+    test("an accepted artifact of each allowed type rebuilds byte for byte", async () => {
+        const shapes = [
+            {
+                approved: { ...TX_PARAMS, gasPrice: "0x77359400" },
+                overrides: {
+                    type: 0,
+                    gasPrice: 2000000000n,
+                    maxFeePerGas: null,
+                    maxPriorityFeePerGas: null,
+                },
+            },
+            {
+                approved: {
+                    ...TX_PARAMS,
+                    gasPrice: "0x77359400",
+                    accessList: [
+                        {
+                            address: RECIPIENT,
+                            storageKeys: ["0x" + "11".repeat(32)],
+                        },
+                    ],
+                },
+                overrides: {
+                    type: 1,
+                    gasPrice: 2000000000n,
+                    maxFeePerGas: null,
+                    maxPriorityFeePerGas: null,
+                    accessList: [
+                        {
+                            address: RECIPIENT,
+                            storageKeys: ["0x" + "11".repeat(32)],
+                        },
+                    ],
+                },
+            },
+            { approved: TX_PARAMS, overrides: {} },
+        ];
+        for (const shape of shapes) {
+            const raw = await signedFor(
+                shape.approved,
+                signer,
+                shape.overrides,
+            );
+            const parsed = verifySignedTx(
+                raw,
+                shape.approved,
+                signer.address,
+                SELECTED,
+            );
+            const fields = { type: parsed.type };
+            for (const key of SERIALIZED_FIELDS[parsed.type]) {
+                fields[key] = parsed[key];
+            }
+            expect(Transaction.from(fields).unsignedSerialized).toBe(
+                parsed.unsignedSerialized,
+            );
+        }
+    });
+});
+
+// The approval and the artifact spell the same values differently. None of
+// these differences is tampering, so none may refuse the signature.
+describe("verifySignedTx normalization", () => {
+    test("accepts a decimal chain id against a hex selected network", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, 1),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, "1"),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("accepts an approved chain id written in hex", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, chainId: "0x1" };
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("accepts a hex nonce against a numeric one", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({ nonce: 7 });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(
+                raw,
+                { ...TX_PARAMS, nonce: "0x7" },
+                signer.address,
+                SELECTED,
+            ),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("accepts a decimal gas limit against a hex one", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({ gasLimit: 100000n });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(
+                raw,
+                { ...TX_PARAMS, gasLimit: "100000" },
+                signer.address,
+                SELECTED,
+            ),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("accepts fee fields spelled as hex, decimal, number and bigint", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        for (const maxFee of [
+            "0x77359400",
+            "2000000000",
+            2000000000,
+            2000000000n,
+        ]) {
+            expect(() =>
+                verifySignedTx(
+                    raw,
+                    { ...TX_PARAMS, maxFeePerGas: maxFee },
+                    signer.address,
+                    SELECTED,
+                ),
+            ).not.toThrow();
+        }
+    });
+
+    test("accepts an approval that fixes no nonce, gas or fee at all", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("accepts an approval whose recipient case differs", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        const approved = { ...TX_PARAMS, to: RECIPIENT.toLowerCase() };
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("accepts absent call data against 0x", async () => {
+        const approved = { to: RECIPIENT, value: "0x0" };
+        const raw = await signedFor({ ...approved, data: "0x" });
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(raw, approved, signer.address, SELECTED),
+        ).not.toThrow();
+    });
+
+    test("refuses an approved quantity that is not a number", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(
+                raw,
+                { ...TX_PARAMS, maxFeePerGas: "cheap" },
+                signer.address,
+                SELECTED,
+            ),
+        ).toThrow(/is not a number/);
+    });
+
+    // The value is page-controlled. A refusal is correct; a raw BigInt
+    // conversion error is not, because it is not a mismatch, so it would be
+    // reported retryable and leave the approval unspent behind a live button
+    // that can never succeed.
+    test("refuses an approved value that is not a number, as a mismatch", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        for (const value of ["cheap", 1.5, "1e18", {}]) {
+            let thrown;
+            try {
+                verifySignedTx(
+                    raw,
+                    { ...TX_PARAMS, value },
+                    signer.address,
+                    SELECTED,
+                );
+                throw new Error("expected a rejection");
+            } catch (e) {
+                thrown = e;
+            }
+            expect(thrown.approvalMismatch).toBe(true);
+            expect(thrown.message).toMatch(/approved value is not a number/);
+            expect(failureIsRetryable(thrown)).toBe(false);
+        }
+    });
+
+    test("refuses an approved access list that is not an access list", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedWith({});
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(
+                raw,
+                { ...TX_PARAMS, accessList: ["nope"] },
+                signer.address,
+                SELECTED,
+            ),
+        ).toThrow(/not a valid access list/);
+    });
+});
+
 const TYPED_DATA = JSON.stringify({
     domain: {
         name: "AutistMask Test",
@@ -281,6 +859,133 @@ describe("verifySignature", () => {
     });
 });
 
+// What happens after a signing attempt fails: the background keeps the
+// approval for anything the user can correct, and the popup only offers the
+// button again when it did.
+describe("signing failure and retry", () => {
+    test("a failure that is not a mismatch leaves the approval retryable", () => {
+        expect(failureIsRetryable(new Error("The node is unreachable."))).toBe(
+            true,
+        );
+        expect(failureIsRetryable(undefined)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    test("a mismatch spends the approval", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedFor({ ...TX_PARAMS, to: OTHER_RECIPIENT });
+        try {
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED);
+            throw new Error("expected a rejection");
+        } catch (e) {
+            expect(failureIsRetryable(e)).toBe(false);
+        }
+    });
+
+    test("a retryable failure keeps the button usable and says only what failed", () => {
+        const outcome = describeSigningFailure(
+            { error: "The node rejected the transaction.", retryable: true },
+            "The transaction could not be sent.",
+        );
+        expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(true);
+        expect(outcome.message).toBe("The node rejected the transaction.");
+    });
+
+    test("a refusal tells the user to start again from the site", () => {
+        const outcome = describeSigningFailure(
+            {
+                error: "The signed transaction does not go to the approved recipient.",
+                retryable: false,
+            },
+            "The transaction could not be sent.",
+        );
+        expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(false);
+        expect(outcome.message).toMatch(/start it again from the site\.$/);
+    });
+
+    test("a response the background never sent is treated as a spent approval", () => {
+        const outcome = describeSigningFailure(
+            undefined,
+            "The transaction could not be sent.",
+        );
+        expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(false);
+        expect(outcome.message).toMatch(/^The transaction could not be sent\./);
+    });
+
+    test("every failure message is a full sentence", () => {
+        const outcome = describeSigningFailure(
+            { error: "The node is on fire", retryable: true },
+            "The transaction could not be sent.",
+        );
+        expect(outcome.message).toMatch(/^[A-Z].*\.$/);
+    });
+
+    test("a popup that could not sign leaves the approval standing", () => {
+        const outcome = describeTxFailure(
+            TX_STAGE_SIGN,
+            "That password is incorrect. Please try again.",
+        );
+        expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(true);
+        expect(outcome.spendApproval).toBe(false);
+        expect(outcome.error).toMatch(/password is incorrect/);
+    });
+
+    test("a mismatch found at verification spends the approval", async () => {
+        const raw = await signedFor({ ...TX_PARAMS, to: OTHER_RECIPIENT });
+        let outcome;
+        try {
+            verifySignedTx(raw, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED);
+        } catch (e) {
+            outcome = describeTxFailure(TX_STAGE_VERIFY, e);
+        }
+        expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(false);
+        expect(outcome.spendApproval).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    test("a failure before the check ran is still retryable", () => {
+        const outcome = describeTxFailure(
+            TX_STAGE_VERIFY,
+            new Error("The wallet state could not be read."),
+        );
+        expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(true);
+        expect(outcome.spendApproval).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    // A broadcast that throws after the node took the transaction is routine:
+    // a timeout, a dropped response, a node answering "already known". The
+    // popup's retry does not re-broadcast the same bytes — it re-populates and
+    // re-signs at a freshly fetched nonce — so a retryable broadcast failure
+    // would put the approved transfer on the chain twice.
+    test("a failed broadcast is terminal, whatever the node said", () => {
+        for (const message of [
+            "already known",
+            "timeout of 30000ms exceeded",
+            "could not coalesce error",
+            "replacement transaction underpriced",
+        ]) {
+            const outcome = describeTxFailure(
+                TX_STAGE_BROADCAST,
+                new Error(message),
+            );
+            expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(false);
+            expect(outcome.spendApproval).toBe(true);
+            expect(outcome.error).toBe(message);
+        }
+    });
+
+    test("a failed broadcast does not tell the user to send it again", () => {
+        const outcome = describeSigningFailure(
+            {
+                error: "The node did not answer.",
+                retryable: false,
+                stage: TX_STAGE_BROADCAST,
+            },
+            "The transaction could not be sent.",
+        );
+        expect(outcome.retryable).toBe(false);
+        expect(outcome.message).toMatch(/may still have reached the network/);
+        expect(outcome.message).not.toMatch(/start it again from the site/);
+    });
+});
+
 // End-to-end over the messaging boundary, without a browser: run the exact
 // sequence the approval popup runs, then hand the artifact to the exact check
 // the background runs before it broadcasts or resolves. Only what the popup
@@ -314,7 +1019,12 @@ describe("popup signing sequence to background verification", () => {
 
     test("a populated, signed transaction is accepted and broadcastable", async () => {
         const rawSignedTx = await popupSignsTx(TX_PARAMS);
-        const parsed = verifySignedTx(rawSignedTx, TX_PARAMS, signer.address);
+        const parsed = verifySignedTx(
+            rawSignedTx,
+            TX_PARAMS,
+            signer.address,
+            SELECTED,
+        );
         expect(parsed.nonce).toBe(7);
         expect(parsed.chainId).toBe(1n);
         expect(parsed.gasLimit).toBe(21000n);
@@ -349,7 +1059,14 @@ describe("popup signing sequence to background verification", () => {
             to: OTHER_RECIPIENT,
         });
         expect(() =>
-            verifySignedTx(rawSignedTx, TX_PARAMS, signer.address),
+            verifySignedTx(rawSignedTx, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SELECTED),
         ).toThrow(/approved recipient/);
     });
+
+    test("the background rejects a transaction populated on another network", async () => {
+        const rawSignedTx = await popupSignsTx(TX_PARAMS);
+        expect(() =>
+            verifySignedTx(rawSignedTx, TX_PARAMS, signer.address, SEPOLIA),
+        ).toThrow(/different network than the one that is selected/);
+    });
 });