Observable discrepancy in dalek-cryptography curve25519-dalek
Priority LOW 22CWE-733Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 3 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-203.
Summary
The curve25519-dalek crate before 4.1.3 for Rust has a constant-time operation on elliptic curve scalars that is removed by LLVM.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0018 7th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial curve25519-dalek (dalek-cryptography): 4.1.3curve25519-dalek (crates.io): 4.1.3Red Hat: 3 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dalek-cryptography | curve25519-dalek | before 4.1.3 | 4.1.3 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | curve25519-dalek (crates.io) | before 4.1.3 | 4.1.3 | Patch available | GHSA-x4gp-pqpj-f43q |
- curve25519-dalek Vendordalek-cryptography Affected before 4.1.3 Fixed in 4.1.3 Patch available CNA
- curve25519-dalek (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 4.1.3 Fixed in 4.1.3 Patch available GHSA-x4gp-pqpj-f43q
Remediation
- Fix · CNA curve25519-dalek (dalek-cryptography) Fixed in 4.1.3
- Fix · GHSA-x4gp-pqpj-f43q curve25519-dalek (crates.io) Fixed in 4.1.3 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
Not affected: 3 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-58262
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x4gp-pqpj-f43q
References
Advisory 2
More dalek-cryptography vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-25722 The ed25519-dalek crate before 2 for Rust allows a double public key signing function… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
Sources
- CVE-2024-58262 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-58262 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x4gp-pqpj-f43q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-58262 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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