GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-hj49-h7fq-px5h Soundness issue with Plonky2 look up tables
HIGH
Official page ↗
- Aliases
- CVE-2025-24802
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- plonky2
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1240
- Reviewed
- 2025-01-30
Affected packages
• crates.io plonky2: >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.1 → fixed in 1.0.1
Description
Impact
Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by `26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3)` always include the `0 -> 0` input-output pair. Thus a malicious prover can always prove that `f(0) = 0` for any lookup table f (unless its length happens to be divisible by 26).
The cause of problem is that the `LookupTableGate`-s are padded with zeros.
The fix is done by padding with an existing table pair, similarly to `LookupGate`.
A workaround from the user side is to extend the table (by repeating some entries) so that its length becomes divisible by 26.
Fortunately, the seemingly most common use case, namely, hash functions with table-based sbox-es, are not vulnerable:
• both Monolith's and Tip5/Tip4's s-box tables already map 0 to 0;
• more generally, forcing several (0,0) pairs inside such a hash function appears to be a too strong restriction to find an otherwise valid trace.
A malicious prover exploiting this could cheat a circuit which statement is the following:
• output `x + f(x)` for some private input `x`, where `f(x) := 100 - x` is implemented by a lookup table.
A malicious prover would be able to convince an honest verifier that they know an `0 <= x < 64` such that `x + (100 - x) = 0`.
Patches
Yes, upgrade to v1.0.1
Workarounds
No
References
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-24802 Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1240 Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation weakness
References
- https://github.com/0xPolygonZero/plonky2/security/advisories/GHSA-hj49-h7fq-px5h web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24802 advisory
- https://github.com/0xPolygonZero/plonky2/commit/091047f7f10cae082716f3738ad59a583835f7b6 web
- https://github.com/0xPolygonZero/plonky2 package
- https://github.com/0xPolygonZero/plonky2/blob/main/plonky2/src/plonk/prover.rs#L97 web