Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting pallet-evm package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-PALLETEVM-11431277
  • published4 Aug 2025
  • disclosed28 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-54426  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm via the Curve25519Add and Curve25519ScalarMul precompiles when processing malformed Ristretto point representations. An attacker can cause incorrect cryptographic computations by submitting invalid input bytes that are silently treated as the identity element.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1