GHSA-56wv-2wr9-3h9rHighCVSS 7.5

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in fastecdsa

Published
October 12, 2021
Last Modified
September 20, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An issue was discovered in fastecdsa before 2.1.2. When using the NIST P-256 curve in the ECDSA implementation, the point at infinity is mishandled. This means that for an extreme value in k and s-1, the signature verification fails even if the signature is correct. This behavior is not solely a usability problem. There are some threat models where an attacker can benefit by successfully guessing users for whom signature verification will fail.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/fastecdsa:< 2.1.2

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