MidnightBSD

Advisories for ecdsautils_project

CVE-2022-24884 MEDIUM

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