CVE-2026-22700

RustCrypto Has Insufficient Length Validation in decrypt() in SM2-PKE

Published Jan 10, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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 public-key encryption (PKE) implementation: the decrypt() path performs unchecked slice::split_at operations on input buffers derived from untrusted ciphertext. An attacker can submit short/undersized ciphertext or carefully-crafted DER-encoded structures to trigger bounds-check panics (Rust unwinding) which crash the calling thread or process. This issue has been patched via commit e60e991.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-j9xq-69pf-pcm8 RustCrypto Has Insufficient Length Validation in decrypt() in SM2-PKE
History
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
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Rustcrypto
Rustcrypto elliptic-curves
Vendors & Products Rustcrypto
Rustcrypto elliptic-curves
Type Values Removed Values Added
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 public-key encryption (PKE) implementation: the decrypt() path performs unchecked slice::split_at operations on input buffers derived from untrusted ciphertext. An attacker can submit short/undersized ciphertext or carefully-crafted DER-encoded structures to trigger bounds-check panics (Rust unwinding) which crash the calling thread or process. This issue has been patched via commit e60e991.
Title RustCrypto Has Insufficient Length Validation in decrypt() in SM2-PKE
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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jan 12, 2026, 2:46 PM
Reserved
Jan 8, 2026, 7:23 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jan 10, 2026, 6:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:20 AM