CVE-2021-43572

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-43572
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-43572.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-43572
Aliases
Published
2021-11-09T22:15:07.727Z
Modified
2026-04-12T03:54:23.507557Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The verify function in the Stark Bank Python ECDSA library (aka starkbank-escada or ecdsa-python) before 2.0.1 fails to check that the signature is non-zero, which allows attackers to forge signatures on arbitrary messages.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/starkbank/ecdsa-python

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/starkbank/ecdsa-python
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.0.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:starkbank:ecdsa-python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1
v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v0.1.2
v0.1.3
v0.1.4
v0.1.7
v0.1.8
v0.1.9
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.1.1
v2.*
v2.0.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-43572.json"