CVE-2021-38195 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the libsecp256k1 crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. It can verify an invalid signature because it allows the R or S parameter to be larger than the curve order aka an overflow.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0076.html https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/libsecp256k1/RUSTSEC-2021-0076.md

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8