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GHSA-w5vr-6qhr-36cc: `ed25519-dalek` Double Public Key Signing Function Oracle Attack

August 14, 2023

Versions of ed25519-dalek prior to v2.0 model private and public keys as separate types which can be assembled into a Keypair, and also provide APIs for serializing and deserializing 64-byte private/public keypairs.

Such APIs and serializations are inherently unsafe as the public key is one of the inputs used in the deterministic computation of the S part of the signature, but not in the R value. An adversary could somehow use the signing function as an oracle that allows arbitrary public keys as input can obtain two signatures for the same message sharing the same R and only differ on the S part.

Unfortunately, when this happens, one can easily extract the private key.

Revised public APIs in v2.0 of ed25519-dalek do NOT allow a decoupled private/public keypair as signing input, except as part of specially labeled “hazmat” APIs which are clearly labeled as being dangerous if misused.

References

  • github.com/MystenLabs/ed25519-unsafe-libs
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-w5vr-6qhr-36cc
  • github.com/dalek-cryptography/ed25519-dalek
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0093.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.0.0

Fixed versions

  • 2.0.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.0 or above.

Source file

cargo/ed25519-dalek/GHSA-w5vr-6qhr-36cc.yml

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