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CVE-2025-69277libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to…
- 4.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.18%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 92% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Record updated
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 | Medium4.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 92% of all CVEs (15 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 4.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistparagonie/sodium_compatGHSA-mrfv-m5wm-5w6w (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIPyNaClGHSA-mrfv-m5wm-5w6w (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIhdwalletGHSA-mrfv-m5wm-5w6w (opens in a new tab)
References
References8
- https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/ad3004ec8731730e93fcfbbc824e67eadc1c1bae (opens in a new tab)
- https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614 (opens in a new tab)
- https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/issues/920 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/ecf41f55a3d8f1e10ce89c61c4b4d67f3f4467cf (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/96314884d88d1089ff5f336dba61d7abbcddbbf7 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00004.html (opens in a new tab)
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-2025-205876 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mrfv-m5wm-5w6w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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