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critical 9.1

GHSA-cwxv-4866-5gq2 json

Shamir backup recovery accepts a share at x = 0, so a supplied share can substitute the recovered private key

published 3h ago modified 7h ago also RUSTSEC-2026-0501

cvss
9.1
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

`KeyShares::from_backup_format` (the Shamir backup share reader, public since 0.2.0, the crate's first release) accepted a share whose x coordinate is 0, and `KeyShares::recover_private_key` interpolates the shares at x = 0 to recover the key. At an x of 0 the interpolation answers that share's y value alone, so an attacker who supplies one share in that form — with the share's integrity tag ground to match the honest set's — chooses the recovered key outright. The non-canonical zero x = p works the same way, and a repeated x past the threshold window also passed.

An application that recovers a Shamir backup from shares it did not produce — a custodian's medium, a share pasted by hand, a set restored from another writer — could be handed the attacker's key as the recovered one. A set the crate's own writer produces never carries such a share; the door is the reader.

0.8.7 refuses such a set before interpolating (the 0.9 line's next prerelease carries the same refusal). Where upgrading is not possible, before recovering split each share on `.` into four fields, base58-decode the x field, and refuse the set if it decodes to zero (the one-character field `1`, or a value at or above the field prime) or if two shares carry the same x.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io bsv-rs 0.8.7, 0.9.0-beta.7.0

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
OSV 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io bsv-rs
>=0.0.0-0, <0.8.7
>=0.9.0-beta.1, <0.9.0-beta.7.0
0.8.7
0.9.0-beta.7.0

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