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CVE-2022-50237 Detail

Description

The ed25519-dalek crate before 2 for Rust allows a double public key signing function oracle attack. The Keypair implementation leads to a simple computation for extracting a private key.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://crates.io/crates/ed25519-dalek MITRE
https://github.com/MystenLabs/ed25519-unsafe-libs MITRE
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0093.html MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-497 Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere MITRE  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-50237
NVD Published Date:
07/27/2025
NVD Last Modified:
07/29/2025
Source:
MITRE