CVE-2025-69277 (GCVE-0-2025-69277)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 05:50 – Updated: 2026-01-07 17:06
VLAI
Summary
libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group.
Severity
4.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-02 15:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-184 - Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
libsodium libsodium Affected: 0 , < ad3004ec8731730e93fcfbbc824e67eadc1c1bae (git)
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