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.
Published:May 5, 2022
Last Modified:Apr 23, 2025
EPS:May 5, 2022
EPSS Score:0.00092
CVSS Score:10
Affected Products
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Debian
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Debian Linux
Debian
Debian Linux
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Ecdsautils Project
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Ecdsautils
Ecdsautils Project
Ecdsautils
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Fedoraproject
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Fedora
Fedoraproject
Fedora
Exploits
No exploit reference
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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