CVE-2022-23001CWE-682

Sweet-B Library: Point compress/decompress using the wrong bit for sign

Medium · published July 29, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

When compressing or decompressing elliptic curve points using the Sweet B library, an incorrect choice of sign bit is used. An attacker with user level privileges and no other user's assistance can exploit this vulnerability with only knowledge of the public key and the library. The resulting output may cause an error when used in other operations; for instance, verification of a valid signature under a decompressed public key may fail. This may be leveraged by an attacker to cause an error scenario in applications which use the library, resulting in a limited denial of service for an individual user. The scope of impact cannot extend to other components.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00720 · 53.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-682 · Incorrect Calculation
Published
2022-07-29T18:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 JUL 18:51Z
    Sweet-B Library: Point compress/decompress using the wrong bit for sign
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