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CVE-2021-38195
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-08-08T06:15:09.117 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:01:44.243

Summary

An issue was discovered in the libsecp256k1 crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. It can verify an invalid signature because it allows the R or S parameter to be larger than the curve order, aka an overflow.

Affected products

parity — libsecp256k1

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References

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