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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2024-45039 EUVD-2024-2851GHSA-q3hw-3gm4-w5crGO-2024-3122

gnark's Groth16 commitment extension unsound for more than one commitment

Published Sep 6, 2024 · Updated Sep 6, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

gnark is a fast zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. Versions prior to 0.11.0 have a soundness issue - in case of multiple commitments used inside the circuit the prover is able to choose all but the last commitment. As gnark uses the commitments for optimized non-native multiplication, lookup checks etc. as random challenges, then it could impact the soundness of the whole circuit. However, using multiple commitments has been discouraged due to the additional cost to the verifier and it has not been supported in the recursive in-circuit Groth16 verifier and Solidity verifier. gnark's maintainers expect the impact of the issue be very small - only for the users who have implemented the native Groth16 verifier or are using it with multiple commitments. We do not have information of such users. The issue has been patched in version 0.11.0. As a workaround, users should follow gnark maintainers' recommendation to use only a single commitment and then derive in-circuit commitments as needed using the `std/multicommit` package.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Consensys gnark < 0.11.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20241213T205935-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14599-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/consensys/gnark < 0.11.0 0.11.0 GHSA-q3hw-3gm4-w5cr

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