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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-22698 EUVD-2026-1876GHSA-w3g8-fp6j-wvqw

RustCrypto SM2-PKE has 32-bit Biased Nonce Vulnerability

Published Jan 10, 2026 · Updated Jan 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
RustCrypto elliptic-curves = 0.14.0-pre.0, = 0.14.0-rc.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io sm2 >= 0.14.0-pre.0, <= 0.14.0-rc.4 — GHSA-w3g8-fp6j-wvqw

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