# CVE-2025-53359: ethereum does not check transaction malleability for EIP-2930, EIP-1559 and EIP-7702 transactions

- Also known as: GHSA-3W94-VQ2X-V5WR
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.18.0
- Published: 2025-07-02 · Updated: 2025-07-03

## Affected

- rust-ethereum ethereum: fixed in 0.18.0
- ethereum (crates.io): fixed in 0.18.0

## Description

ethereum is a common ethereum structs for Rust. Prior to ethereum crate v0.18.0, signature malleability (according to EIP-2) was only checked for "legacy" transactions, but not for EIP-2930, EIP-1559 and EIP-7702 transactions. This is a specification deviation. The signature malleability itself is not a security issue and not as high of a risk if the ethereum crate is used on a single-implementation blockchain. This issue has been patched in version v0.18.0. A workaround for this issue involves manually checking transaction malleability outside of the crate, however upgrading is recommended.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rust-ethereum ethereum, ethereum, upgrade to a fixed version (0.18.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/rust-ethereum/ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-3w94-vq2x-v5wr
- https://github.com/rust-ethereum/ethereum/pull/67
- https://github.com/rust-ethereum/ethereum/commit/2dd9d1d5d0936ec7350093ff3a5a7169a349db77

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