# CVE-2024-21670: CL-Signatures Revocation Scheme in Ursa has flaws that allow a holder to demonstrate non-revocation of a revoked credential

- Also known as: GHSA-R78F-4Q2Q-HVV4
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-01-16 · Updated: 2024-08-01

## Affected

- hyperledger-archives ursa: through 0.3.7
- ursa (crates.io): through 0.3.7
- anoncreds-clsignatures (crates.io): all versions

## Description

Ursa is a cryptographic library for use with blockchains. The revocation schema that is part of the Ursa CL-Signatures implementations has a flaw that could impact the privacy guarantees defined by the AnonCreds verifiable credential model, allowing a malicious holder of a revoked credential to generate a valid Non-Revocation Proof for that credential as part of an AnonCreds presentation. A verifier may verify a credential from a holder as being "not revoked" when in fact, the holder's credential has been revoked. Ursa has moved to end-of-life status and no fix is expected.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hyperledger-archives ursa, ursa, anoncreds-clsignatures, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [crates.io packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/crates.io.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/ursa/security/advisories/GHSA-r78f-4q2q-hvv4

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