CVE-2026-22698

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:rustcrypto:sm2_elliptic_curve:0.14.0:pre0:*:*:*:rust:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rustcrypto:sm2_elliptic_curve:0.14.0:rc0:*:*:*:rust:*:*

History

12 Mar 2026, 19:13

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time Rustcrypto
Rustcrypto sm2 Elliptic Curve
CPE cpe:2.3:a:rustcrypto:sm2_elliptic_curve:0.14.0:rc0:*:*:*:rust:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rustcrypto:sm2_elliptic_curve:0.14.0:pre0:*:*:*:rust:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5
References () https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-pre.0 - () https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-pre.0 - Release Notes
References () https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-rc.0 - () https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-rc.0 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/commit/4781762f23ff22ab34763410f648128055c93731 - () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/commit/4781762f23ff22ab34763410f648128055c93731 - Patch
References () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/commit/e4f77788130d065d760e57fb109370827110a525 - () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/commit/e4f77788130d065d760e57fb109370827110a525 - Patch
References () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/pull/1600 - () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/pull/1600 - Issue Tracking, Patch
References () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/security/advisories/GHSA-w3g8-fp6j-wvqw - () https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/security/advisories/GHSA-w3g8-fp6j-wvqw - Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory

10 Jan 2026, 06:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-01-10 06:15

Updated : 2026-03-12 19:13


NVD link : CVE-2026-22698

Mitre link : CVE-2026-22698

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-22698


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Products Affected

rustcrypto

  • sm2_elliptic_curve
CWE
CWE-331

Insufficient Entropy