CVE-2026-22698CWE-331

RustCrypto SM2-PKE has 32-bit Biased Nonce Vulnerability

High · published January 10, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 commit e4f7778.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00274 · 18.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-331 · Insufficient Entropy
Published
2026-01-10T05:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JAN 05:17Z
    RustCrypto SM2-PKE has 32-bit Biased Nonce Vulnerability
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