GHSA-g4vj-x7v9-h82m

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g4vj-x7v9-h82m
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/08/GHSA-g4vj-x7v9-h82m/GHSA-g4vj-x7v9-h82m.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-g4vj-x7v9-h82m
Aliases
Published
2021-08-25T20:56:03Z
Modified
2023-11-08T04:06:26.227511Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Overflow in libsecp256k1
Details

An issue was discovered in the libsecp256k1 crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. It can verify an invalid signature because it allows the R or S parameter to be larger than the curve order, aka an overflow.

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-08-08T06:15:00Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-08-18T21:20:32Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-190",
        "CWE-347"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

crates.io / libsecp256k1

Package

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.0