# CVE-2026-22699: RustCrypto SM2-PKE has Unchecked AffinePoint Decoding (unwrap) in decrypt()

- Also known as: GHSA-78P6-6878-8MJ6
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-10 · Updated: 2026-01-12

## Affected

- RustCrypto elliptic-curves: 0.14.0-pre.0, 0.14.0-rc.0
- sm2 (crates.io): from 0.14.0-pre.0, through 0.14.0-rc.4

## Description

RustCrypto: Elliptic Curves is general purpose Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support, including types and traits for representing various elliptic curve forms, scalars, points, and public/secret keys composed thereof. In versions 0.14.0-pre.0 and 0.14.0-rc.0, a denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the SM2 PKE decryption path where an invalid elliptic-curve point (C1) is decoded and the resulting value is unwrapped without checking. Specifically, AffinePoint::from_encoded_point(&encoded_c1) may return a None/CtOption::None when the supplied coordinates are syntactically valid but do not lie on the SM2 curve. The calling code previously used .unwrap(), causing a panic when presented with such input. This issue has been patched via commit 085b7be.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/security/advisories/GHSA-78p6-6878-8mj6
- https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/pull/1602
- https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/commit/085b7bee647029bd189e1375203418205006bcab

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