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CVE-2022-50237The ed25519-dalek crate before 2 for Rust allows a double public key signing function oracle attack. The Keypair implementation leads to a…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.22%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 88% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The ed25519-dalek crate before 2 for Rust allows a double public key signing function oracle attack. The Keypair implementation leads to a simple computation for extracting a private key.
Timeline
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.22% · top 88% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
dalek-cryptography · ed25519-dalek
- affected < 2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- crates.ioed25519-dalekGHSA-w5vr-6qhr-36cc (opens in a new tab)
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-55212 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w5vr-6qhr-36cc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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