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CVE-2026-22700GHSA-J9XQ-69PF-PCM8

RustCrypto Has Insufficient Length Validation in decrypt() in SM2-PKE

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  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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 public-key encryption (PKE) implementation: the decrypt() path performs unchecked slice::split_at operations on input buffers derived from untrusted ciphertext. An attacker can submit short/undersized ciphertext or carefully-crafted DER-encoded structures to trigger bounds-check panics (Rust unwinding) which crash the calling thread or process. This issue has been patched via commit e60e991.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • RustCrypto elliptic-curves

    0.14.0-pre.0, 0.14.0-rc.0

  • sm2crates.io

    From 0.14.0-pre.0 · through 0.14.0-rc.4

References 3

GitHub · RustCrypto/elliptic-curves