FKIE_CVE-2026-22698
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-10 06:15 - Updated: 2026-03-12 19:13
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Summary
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 critical vulnerability exists in the SM2 Public Key Encryption (PKE) implementation where the ephemeral nonce k is generated with severely reduced entropy. A unit mismatch error causes the nonce generation function to request only 32 bits of randomness instead of the expected 256 bits. This reduces the security of the encryption from a 128-bit level to a trivial 16-bit level, allowing a practical attack to recover the nonce k and decrypt any ciphertext given only the public key and ciphertext. This issue has been patched via commit e4f7778.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| rustcrypto | sm2_elliptic_curve | 0.14.0 | |
| rustcrypto | sm2_elliptic_curve | 0.14.0 |
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