ecdsautils is a tiny collection of programs used for ECDSA (keygen, sign, verify). `ecdsa_verify_[prepare_]legacy()` does not check whether the signature values `r` and `s` are non-zero. A signature consisting only of zeroes is always considered valid, making it trivial to forge signatures. Requiring multiple signatures from different public keys does not mitigate the issue: `ecdsa_verify_list_legacy()` will accept an arbitrary number of such forged signatures. Both the `ecdsautil verify` CLI command and the libecdsautil library are affected. The issue has been fixed in ecdsautils 0.4.1. All older versions of ecdsautils (including versions before the split into a library and a CLI utility) are vulnerable.
CVSS 3.x
| Source | Score | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| security-advisories@github.com | 10.0 | CRITICAL | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | 3.9 | 5.8 |
| nvd@nist.gov | 7.5 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | 3.9 | 3.6 |
CVSS 2.0
Severity: MEDIUM
Problem Type: CWE-347,CWE-347,
Products Affected
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux | 11.0 |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 36 |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 35 |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 |
| ecdsautils_project | ecdsautils | * |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 34 |