CVE-2026-22700
HIGHrustcrypto/sm2_elliptic_curve 0.14.0-pre.0/rc.0 DoS via Unchecked Slice Operations in SM2 Decryption
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/security/advisories/GHSA-j9xq-69pf-pcm8
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/pull/1603
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0028
EPSS Percentile
19.5%
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