GHSA-522r-9946-fw43: Duplicate Advisory: CIRCL-Fourq: Missing and wrong validation can lead to incorrect results

August 6, 2025

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-2x5j-vhc8-9cwm. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

A flaw was found in CIRCL’s implementation of the FourQ elliptic curve. This vulnerability allows an attacker to compromise session security via low-order point injection and incorrect point validation during Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8556
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2371624
github.com/advisories/GHSA-522r-9946-fw43
github.com/cloudflare/circl
github.com/cloudflare/circl/security/advisories/GHSA-2x5j-vhc8-9cwm
github.com/cloudflare/circl/tree/v1.6.1
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8556

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