Rejecting EIP-1559 transactions on unsupported networks (#11722)

app/scripts/controllers/transactions/index.js

@@ -327,8 +327,9 @@ export default class TransactionController extends EventEmitter {
   async addUnapprovedTransaction(txParams, origin) {
     // validate
     const normalizedTxParams = txUtils.normalizeTxParams(txParams);
+    const eip1559Compatibility = await this.getEIP1559Compatibility();
 
-    txUtils.validateTxParams(normalizedTxParams);
+    txUtils.validateTxParams(normalizedTxParams, eip1559Compatibility);
 
     /**
     `generateTxMeta` adds the default txMeta properties to the passed object.

app/scripts/controllers/transactions/lib/util.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   TRANSACTION_ENVELOPE_TYPES,
   TRANSACTION_STATUSES,
 } from '../../../../../shared/constants/transaction';
+import { isEIP1559Transaction } from '../../../../../shared/modules/transaction.utils';
 import { isValidHexAddress } from '../../../../../shared/modules/hexstring-utils';
 
 const normalizers = {
@@ -119,9 +120,10 @@ function ensureProperTransactionEnvelopeTypeProvided(txParams, field) {
 /**
  * Validates the given tx parameters
  * @param {Object} txParams - the tx params
+ * @param {boolean} eip1559Compatibility - whether or not the current network supports EIP-1559 transactions
  * @throws {Error} if the tx params contains invalid fields
  */
-export function validateTxParams(txParams) {
+export function validateTxParams(txParams, eip1559Compatibility = true) {
   if (!txParams || typeof txParams !== 'object' || Array.isArray(txParams)) {
     throw ethErrors.rpc.invalidParams(
       'Invalid transaction params: must be an object.',
@@ -132,6 +134,11 @@ export function validateTxParams(txParams) {
       'Invalid transaction params: must specify "data" for contract deployments, or "to" (and optionally "data") for all other types of transactions.',
     );
   }
+  if (isEIP1559Transaction({ txParams }) && !eip1559Compatibility) {
+    throw ethErrors.rpc.invalidParams(
+      'Invalid transaction params: params specify an EIP-1559 transaction but the current network does not support EIP-1559',
+    );
+  }
 
   Object.entries(txParams).forEach(([key, value]) => {
     // validate types

app/scripts/controllers/transactions/lib/util.test.js

@@ -283,6 +283,33 @@ describe('txUtils', function () {
         assert.doesNotThrow(() => txUtils.validateTxParams(txParams));
       });
     });
+
+    describe('when validating EIP-1559 transactions', function () {
+      it('should error when network does not support EIP-1559', function () {
+        const txParams = {
+          maxPriorityFeePerGas: '0x1',
+          maxFeePerGas: '0x1',
+          to: BURN_ADDRESS,
+        };
+        assert.throws(
+          () => {
+            txUtils.validateTxParams(txParams, false);
+          },
+          {
+            message:
+              'Invalid transaction params: params specify an EIP-1559 transaction but the current network does not support EIP-1559',
+          },
+        );
+      });
+      it('should validate when network does support EIP-1559', function () {
+        const txParams = {
+          maxPriorityFeePerGas: '0x1',
+          maxFeePerGas: '0x1',
+          to: BURN_ADDRESS,
+        };
+        assert.doesNotThrow(() => txUtils.validateTxParams(txParams, true));
+      });
+    });
   });
 
   describe('#normalizeTxParams', function () {