# CVE-2026-33936: python-ecdsa: Denial of Service via improper DER length validation in crafted private keys

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2467, GHSA-9F5J-8JWJ-X28G
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 0.19.2
- Published: 2026-03-27 · Updated: 2026-04-01

## Affected

- tlsfuzzer python-ecdsa: fixed in 0.19.2
- ecdsa (PyPI): fixed in 0.19.2

## Description

The `ecdsa` PyPI package is a pure Python implementation of ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) with support for ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm), EdDSA (Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm) and ECDH (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman). Prior to version 0.19.2, an issue in the low-level DER parsing functions can cause unexpected exceptions to be raised from the public API functions. `ecdsa.der.remove_octet_string()` accepts truncated DER where the encoded length exceeds the available buffer. For example, an OCTET STRING that declares a length of 4096 bytes but provides only 3 bytes is parsed successfully instead of being rejected. Because of that, a crafted DER input can cause `SigningKey.from_der()` to raise an internal exception (`IndexError: index out of bounds on dimension 1`) rather than cleanly rejecting malformed DER (e.g., raising `UnexpectedDER` or `ValueError`). Applications that parse untrusted DER private keys may crash if they do not handle unexpected exceptions, resulting in a denial of service. Version 0.19.2 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tlsfuzzer python-ecdsa, ecdsa, upgrade to a fixed version (0.19.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/python-ecdsa/security/advisories/GHSA-9f5j-8jwj-x28g
- https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/python-ecdsa/commit/bd66899550d7185939bf27b75713a2ac9325a9d3
- https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/python-ecdsa/releases/tag/python-ecdsa-0.19.2
- https://github.com/0xmrma/CVE-2026-33936

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