CVE-2025-52484
RISC Zero zkVM Underconstrained Vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 2.7 Low
- Published
- Jun 20, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 23, 2025
- Reserved
- Jun 17, 2025
Description
RISC Zero is a general computing platform based on zk-STARKs and the RISC-V microarchitecture. Due to a missing constraint in the rv32im circuit, any 3-register RISC-V instruction (including remu and divu) in risc0-zkvm 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an attack by a malicious prover. The main idea for the attack is to confuse the RISC-V virtual machine into treating the value of the rs1 register as the same as the rs2 register due to a lack of constraints in the rv32im circuit. Rust applications using the risc0-zkvm crate at versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2 should upgrade to version 2.1.0. Smart contract applications using the official RISC Zero Verifier Router do not need to take any action: zkVM version 2.1 is active on all official routers, and version 2.0 has been disabled. Smart contract applications not using the verifier router should update their contracts to send verification calls to the 2.1 version of the verifier.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 2.7 Low | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
risc0risc0 |
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References
- https://github.com/risc0/risc0/security/advisories/GHSA-g3qg-6746-3mg9
- https://github.com/risc0/risc0/pull/3181
- https://github.com/risc0/zirgen/pull/238
- https://github.com/risc0/risc0/commit/006d86c363b16d2b2ac42d32d832a209ff8ab4c9
- https://github.com/risc0/risc0/commit/1873bbb8a56793edd1f6195242d184cf6cc5175d
- https://github.com/risc0/risc0/commit/67f2d81c638bff5f4fcfe11a084ebb34799b7a89
- https://github.com/risc0/zirgen/commit/e0e2918302c93e956f73ca2e44aef2b861d8c3ae
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