CVE-2026-22700

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-08 | Published 2026-01-10 | Updated 2026-01-12 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Product status

References

github.com/...curves/security/advisories/GHSA-j9xq-69pf-pcm8 exploit

github.com/...curves/security/advisories/GHSA-j9xq-69pf-pcm8

github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/pull/1603

github.com/...ommit/e60e99167a9a2b187ebe80c994c5204b0fdaf4ab

cve.org (CVE-2026-22700)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-22700)

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