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CVE-2023-44378highCWE-191CWE-697

gnark vulnerable to unsoundness in variable comparison/non-unique binary decomposition

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 87% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
gnark is a zk-SNARK library that offers a high-level API to design circuits. Prior to version 0.9.0, for some in-circuit values, it is possible to construct two valid decomposition to bits. In addition to the canonical decomposition of `a`, for small values there exists a second decomposition for `a+r` (where `r` is the modulus the values are being reduced by). The second decomposition was possible due to overflowing the field where the values are defined. Upgrading to version 0.9.0 should fix the issue without needing to change the calls to value comparison methods.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Consensys · gnark