CVE-2025-58157 (GCVE-0-2025-58157)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-29 21:21
Modified
2025-09-02 14:09
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
gnark is a zero-knowledge proof system framework. In version 0.12.0, there is a potential denial of service vulnerability when computing scalar multiplication is using the fake-GLV algorithm. This is because the algorithm didn't converge quickly enough for some of the inputs. This issue has been patched in version 0.13.0.
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Impacted products
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Consensys gnark Version: = 0.12.0
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