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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-69277 Detail

Description

libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/ MITRE
https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/ad3004ec8731730e93fcfbbc824e67eadc1c1bae MITRE
https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/96314884d88d1089ff5f336dba61d7abbcddbbf7 MITRE
https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/ecf41f55a3d8f1e10ce89c61c4b4d67f3f4467cf MITRE
https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/issues/920 MITRE
https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html MITRE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00004.html CVE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614 MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs MITRE  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-69277
NVD Published Date:
12/31/2025
NVD Last Modified:
01/07/2026
Source:
MITRE