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GHSA-9c8r-76f3-m426 json

Signature::from_der reads a signature with bytes after it, a wrong sequence length or an unneeded zero as the signature

published yesterday modified 6h ago also RUSTSEC-2026-0499

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, OSV
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

`Signature::from_der` read a DER-encoded ECDSA signature leniently. It read as the signature: the signature followed by other bytes; a sequence length shorter than its contents, or longer with bytes after them (a length byte with its high bit set among them); and an R or S preceded by a zero byte it did not need. It read a lone-zero R or S as zero.

`messages::verify`, `compat::bsm::verify_message_der`, `auth::Certificate::verify`, `auth::VerifiableCertificate::verify`, `wallet::ProtoWallet::verify_signature` and `kvstore::KVStoreInterpreter::verify_signature` read through it, and each verified such a form of a valid signature. Given one signature a key holder made, anyone could produce other byte strings that verify as that signature over the same data. No form verifies over other data: an application that acts on the verdict alone is not affected; one that compares, hashes or stores a signature's bytes is.

0.8.6 refuses each form as `Error::InvalidSignature`. A signature's bytes are still not unique after the patch: the same signature with S replaced by n - S verifies, so an application that keys on the bytes also requires `Signature::is_low_s()`.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io bsv-rs 0.8.6, 0.9.0-beta.7.0

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
OSV 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io bsv-rs
>=0.0.0-0, <0.8.6
>=0.9.0-beta.1, <0.9.0-beta.7.0
0.8.6
0.9.0-beta.7.0

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Sources

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