CVE-2025-46723
OpenVM byte decomposition of pc in AUIPC chip can overflow
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- May 2, 2025
- Updated
- May 6, 2025
- Reserved
- Apr 28, 2025
Description
OpenVM is a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility. In version 1.0.0, OpenVM is vulnerable to overflow through byte decomposition of pc in AUIPC chip. A typo results in the highest limb of pc being range checked to 8-bits instead of 6-bits. This results in the if statement never being triggered because the enumeration gives i=0,1,2, when instead the enumeration should give i=1,2,3, leaving pc_limbs[3] range checked to 8-bits instead of 6-bits. This leads to a vulnerability where the pc_limbs decomposition differs from the true pc, which means a malicious prover can make the destination register take a different value than the AUIPC instruction dictates, by making the decomposition overflow the BabyBear field. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.0.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 7.8 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
openvmopenvm-org |
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References
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/security/advisories/GHSA-jf2r-x3j4-23m7
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/commit/68da4b50c033da5603517064aa0a08e1bbf70a01
- https://cantina.xyz/code/c486d600-bed0-4fc6-aed1-de759fd29fa2/findings/21
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/blob/0f94c8a3dfa7536c1231465d1bdee5fc607a5993/extensions/rv32im/circuit/src/auipc/core.rs#L135
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/releases/tag/v1.1.0
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