GHSA-3w94-vq2x-v5wr

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3w94-vq2x-v5wr
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/07/GHSA-3w94-vq2x-v5wr/GHSA-3w94-vq2x-v5wr.json
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Published
2025-07-02T15:12:18Z
Modified
2025-07-02T18:59:52Z
Severity
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
ethereum does not check transaction malleability for EIP-2930, EIP-1559 and EIP-7702 transactions
Details

Impact

Prior to ethereum crate v0.18.0, signature malleability (according to EIP-2) was only checked for "legacy" transactions, but not for EIP-2930, EIP-1559 and EIP-7702 transactions.

This is a specification deviation and therefore a high severity advisory if the ethereum crate is used for Ethereum mainnet. Note that signature malleability itself is not a security issue, and therefore if the ethereum crate is used on a single-implementation blockchain, it's a low/informational severity advisory.

Patches

The issue is fixed in ethereum v0.18.0

Workarounds

You can also manually check transaction malleability outside of the crate. But it's recommended to simply upgrade the version.

References

See PR: https://github.com/rust-ethereum/ethereum/pull/67

Database specific 
{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-07-02T16:15:29Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-754"
    ],
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-07-02T15:12:18Z"
}
References

Affected packages

crates.io / ethereum

Package

Name
ethereum
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Purl
pkg:cargo/ethereum

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.18.0