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Unscored RUSTSEC-2026-0330

Hybrid Encapsulation from Seed Panics on Short Seed

Published Sep 28, 2026 · Updated Oct 7, 2026 · Assigned by RUSTSEC

Description

For a hybrid KEM public key of type `PublicKey::WingKemDraft06` or `PublicKey::X25519MlKem768Draft06`, the `PublicKey::encapsulate_derand` function would panic in an indexing operation on a seed input of length shorter than 32 bytes.

# Impact

Applications encapsulating with an attacker controlled seed value could be made to panic. Since the encapsulation seed should be considered a secret of the encapsulating party for the KEM to remain secure, an application should never take the seed value from a potentially attacker controlled source.

# Mitigation

With release of version `0.0.10` of `libcrux-kem` this bug has been fixed and the serialization functions return `InvalidPrivateKey` and `InvalidPublicKey` errors on invalid input buffer lengths.

We recommend users upgrade to `libcrux-kem` version `0.0.10`.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io libcrux-kem >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.0.10 0.0.10 RUSTSEC-2026-0330

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