Description
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: 2022-05-05
Score: 10 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2997-1 ecdsautils security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5132-1 ecdsautils security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-29652 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6239-1 ECDSA Util vulnerability
History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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Debian Debian Linux
Ecdsautils Project Ecdsautils
Fedoraproject Fedora
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-23T18:29:53.064Z

Reserved: 2022-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-24884

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:29:00.636Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-05-06T00:15:07.697

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:51:19.097

Link: CVE-2022-24884

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