CVE-2022-50237 (GCVE-0-2022-50237)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-28 00:00
Modified
2025-07-28 13:56
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-497 - Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
Summary
The ed25519-dalek crate before 2 for Rust allows a double public key signing function oracle attack. The Keypair implementation leads to a simple computation for extracting a private key.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
dalek-cryptography ed25519-dalek Version: 0   < 2
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