CVE-2022-23001

Sweet-B Library: Point compress/decompress using the wrong bit for sign

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Jul 29, 2022
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Jan 10, 2022

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Description

When compressing or decompressing elliptic curve points using the Sweet B library, an incorrect choice of sign bit is used. An attacker with user level privileges and no other user's assistance can exploit this vulnerability with only knowledge of the public key and the library. The resulting output may cause an error when used in other operations; for instance, verification of a valid signature under a decompressed public key may fail. This may be leveraged by an attacker to cause an error scenario in applications which use the library, resulting in a limited denial of service for an individual user. The scope of impact cannot extend to other components.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LWDC PSIRT

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Sweet B LibraryWestern Digital
  • Sweet B Library to before v2Affected

References

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