CVE-2025-54426CWE-327

Polkadot Frontier contains silent failure in Curve25519 arithmetic precompiles with malformed points

Critical · published July 28, 2025

CVSS v4.0
9.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Polkadot Frontier is an Ethereum and EVM compatibility layer for Polkadot and Substrate. In versions prior to commit 36f70d1, the Curve25519Add and Curve25519ScalarMul precompiles incorrectly handle invalid Ristretto point representations. Instead of returning an error, they silently treat invalid input bytes as the Ristretto identity element, leading to potentially incorrect cryptographic results. This is fixed in commit 36f70d1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
9.9 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
EPSS
0.00341 · 26.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-327 · Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
Published
2025-07-28T20:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 JUL 20:08Z
    Polkadot Frontier contains silent failure in Curve25519 arithmetic precompiles with malformed points
    cvelistv5