CVE-2026-26007

cryptography Subgroup Attack Due to Missing Subgroup Validation for SECT Curves

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Sévérité
HIGH 8.2
EPSS
EPSS 0.39 % · centile 33 (2026-10-27)
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
Attribuée par
GitHub_M
Statut NVD
Modified

Description

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. Prior to 46.0.5, the public_key_from_numbers (or EllipticCurvePublicNumbers.public_key()), EllipticCurvePublicNumbers.public_key(), load_der_public_key() and load_pem_public_key() functions do not verify that the point belongs to the expected prime-order subgroup of the curve. This missing validation allows an attacker to provide a public key point P from a small-order subgroup. This can lead to security issues in various situations, such as the most commonly used signature verification (ECDSA) and shared key negotiation (ECDH). When the victim computes the shared secret as S = [victim_private_key]P via ECDH, this leaks information about victim_private_key mod (small_subgroup_order). For curves with cofactor > 1, this reveals the least significant bits of the private key. When these weak public keys are used in ECDSA , it's easy to forge signatures on the small subgroup. Only SECT curves are impacted by this. This vulnerability is fixed in 46.0.5.

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nredhat-SADP
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

Faiblesses (CWE)

Avis

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
pyca · cryptographyaffected < 46.0.5

Références

Sources

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