Description
RustCrypto: Elliptic Curves is general purpose Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support, including types and traits for representing various elliptic curve forms, scalars, points, and public/secret keys composed thereof. In versions 0.14.0-pre.0 and 0.14.0-rc.0, a denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the SM2 PKE decryption path where an invalid elliptic-curve point (C1) is decoded and the resulting value is unwrapped without checking. Specifically, AffinePoint::from_encoded_point(&encoded_c1) may return a None/CtOption::None when the supplied coordinates are syntactically valid but do not lie on the SM2 curve. The calling code previously used .unwrap(), causing a panic when presented with such input. This issue has been patched via commit 085b7be.
Published: 2026-01-10
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Denial of Service
Action: Apply Patch
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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-78p6-6878-8mj6 SM2-PKE has Unchecked AffinePoint Decoding (unwrap) in decrypt()
History

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Rustcrypto sm2 Elliptic Curve
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:rustcrypto:sm2_elliptic_curve:0.14.0:pre0:*:*:*:rust:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rustcrypto:sm2_elliptic_curve:0.14.0:rc0:*:*:*:rust:*:*
Vendors & Products Rustcrypto sm2 Elliptic Curve

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Rustcrypto
Rustcrypto elliptic-curves
Vendors & Products Rustcrypto
Rustcrypto elliptic-curves

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:30:00 +0000

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Description RustCrypto: Elliptic Curves is general purpose Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support, including types and traits for representing various elliptic curve forms, scalars, points, and public/secret keys composed thereof. In versions 0.14.0-pre.0 and 0.14.0-rc.0, a denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the SM2 PKE decryption path where an invalid elliptic-curve point (C1) is decoded and the resulting value is unwrapped without checking. Specifically, AffinePoint::from_encoded_point(&encoded_c1) may return a None/CtOption::None when the supplied coordinates are syntactically valid but do not lie on the SM2 curve. The calling code previously used .unwrap(), causing a panic when presented with such input. This issue has been patched via commit 085b7be.
Title RustCrypto SM2-PKE has Unchecked AffinePoint Decoding (unwrap) in decrypt()
Weaknesses CWE-20
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Rustcrypto Elliptic-curves Sm2 Elliptic Curve
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-12T14:59:18.634Z

Reserved: 2026-01-08T19:23:09.856Z

Link: CVE-2026-22699

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-12T14:58:58.094Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-01-10T06:15:52.377

Modified: 2026-01-22T14:53:30.840

Link: CVE-2026-22699

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-18T07:15:25Z

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