GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-w5vr-6qhr-36cc `ed25519-dalek` Double Public Key Signing Function Oracle Attack

MEDIUM Published 2023-08-14 Modified 2025-07-28 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2022-50237
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
ed25519-dalek
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-497
Reviewed
2023-08-14

Affected packages

• crates.io ed25519-dalek: < 2.0.0 → fixed in 2.0.0

Description

Versions of `ed25519-dalek` prior to v2.0 model private and public keys as separate types which can be assembled into a `Keypair`, and also provide APIs for serializing and deserializing 64-byte private/public keypairs. Such APIs and serializations are inherently unsafe as the public key is one of the inputs used in the deterministic computation of the `S` part of the signature, but not in the `R` value. An adversary could somehow use the signing function as an oracle that allows arbitrary public keys as input can obtain two signatures for the same message sharing the same `R` and only differ on the `S` part. Unfortunately, when this happens, one can easily extract the private key. Revised public APIs in v2.0 of `ed25519-dalek` do NOT allow a decoupled private/public keypair as signing input, except as part of specially labeled "hazmat" APIs which are clearly labeled as being dangerous if misused.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2022-50237 The ed25519-dalek crate before 2 for Rust allows a double public key signing function oracle attack. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-497 Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere weakness

References