cvedb.io
CVE-2026-22698
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-01-10T06:15:52.220 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:20:15.333

Summary

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 co

Affected products

rustcrypto — sm2_elliptic_curve

Does this affect you?

Add your gear to cvedb and we'll alert you only when rustcrypto ships something exploited.

Check my exposure →

References

This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Informational only; not professional security advice.