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.
Published: 2021-08-08
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1711 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g4vj-x7v9-h82m Overflow in libsecp256k1
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Parity Libsecp256k1
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:37:16.090Z

Reserved: 2021-08-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-38195

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-08-08T06:15:09.117

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:37.403

Link: CVE-2021-38195

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