CVE-2025-52484CWE-345

RISC Zero zkVM Underconstrained Vulnerability

Low · published June 20, 2025

CVSS v4.0
2.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

RISC Zero is a general computing platform based on zk-STARKs and the RISC-V microarchitecture. Due to a missing constraint in the rv32im circuit, any 3-register RISC-V instruction (including remu and divu) in risc0-zkvm 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an attack by a malicious prover. The main idea for the attack is to confuse the RISC-V virtual machine into treating the value of the rs1 register as the same as the rs2 register due to a lack of constraints in the rv32im circuit. Rust applications using the risc0-zkvm crate at versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2 should upgrade to version 2.1.0. Smart contract applications using the official RISC Zero Verifier Router do not need to take any action: zkVM version 2.1 is active on all official routers, and version 2.0 has been disabled. Smart contract applications not using the verifier router should update their contracts to send verification calls to the 2.1 version of the verifier.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
2.7 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
EPSS
0.00271 · 18.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-345 · Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Published
2025-06-20T17:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 JUN 17:21Z
    RISC Zero zkVM Underconstrained Vulnerability
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