CVE-2026-22700

HIGH

Rustcrypto Sm2 Elliptic Curve - Improper Input Validation

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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 denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the SM2 public-key encryption (PKE) implementation: the decrypt() path performs unchecked slice::split_at operations on input buffers derived from untrusted ciphertext. An attacker can submit short/undersized ciphertext or carefully-crafted DER-encoded structures to trigger bounds-check panics (Rust unwinding) which crash the calling thread or process. This issue has been patched via commit e60e991.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 24.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
crates.io/sm2 0.14.0-pre.0crates.io
rustcrypto/sm2_elliptic_curve 0.14.0 pre0 (2 CPE variants)
Published Jan 10, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026