CVE-2022-24884
ecdsautils is a tiny collection of programs used for ECDSA (keygen, sign, verify). `ecdsa_verify_[prepare_]legacy()` does not check whether the signature values `r` and `s` are non-zero. A signature consisting only of zeroes is always considered valid, making it trivial to forge signatures. Requiring multiple signatures from different public keys does not mitigate the issue: `ecdsa_verify_list_legacy()` will accept an arbitrary number of such forged signatures. Both the `ecdsautil verify` CLI command and the libecdsautil library are affected. The issue has been fixed in ecdsautils 0.4.1. All older versions of ecdsautils (including versions before the split into a library and a CLI utility) are vulnerable.
EPSS 1.00% · 60.1th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| freifunk-gluon | ecdsautils | < 0.4.1 |
| ecdsautils_project | ecdsautils | 0 |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 35, 36, 34 |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0, 9.0, 11.0 |
Timeline
- May 5, 2022 CVE Published
- May 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jun 25, 2022 EPSS Score
- Aug 14, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 10, 2023 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jun 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 27, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 14, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/security/advisories/GHSA-qhcg-9ffp-78pw url
- https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/commit/1d4b091abdf15ad7b2312535b5b95ad70f6dbd08 url
- https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/commit/39b6d0a77414fd41614953a0e185c4eefa2f88ad url
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220507 [SECURITY] [DLA 2997-1] ecdsautils security update mailing-list
- DSA-5132 vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-111177a5ac vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-7704d5e885 vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-bf58612696 vendor-advisory