GHSA-h9cc-w26m-j342
nimiq-keys: Denial of service in Ed25519 multisig delinearization via invalid curve points
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | nimiq-keys | < 1.4.0 | 1.4.0 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Ed25519 multisig delinearization code path. `Ed25519PublicKey::delinearize()` in `keys/src/multisig/mod.rs` called `.unwrap()` on curve point decompression, which panics when a public key is
constructed from 32 bytes that do not represent a valid point on the Ed25519 curve. `Ed25519PublicKey` construction only validates byte length, not curve membership, so invalid keys can reach the delinearization path and crash the
hosting process.
A secondary panic existed in `Commitment::From<[u8; 32]>`, which similarly called `.unwrap()` on a failing curve point decompression.
**Who is affected:** Browser and desktop wallet users of the web-client WASM library and the `nimiq-wallet` crate, when initiating a multisig operation with an attacker-supplied public key. An attacker must convince the user to include
a crafted public key in a multisig setup — this is not a remotely triggerable node/validator crash.
**Who is NOT affected:** Validator nodes, consensus, blockchain, mempool, and networking code. There is no on-chain multisig account type; multisig is a purely client-side construct, and no validator/consensus code calls the multisig delinearization path.
### Patches
See [PR](https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/pull/3713).
### Workarounds
No code-level workaround exists short of the patch. Users of wallet applications can mitigate exposure by only performing multisig operations with public keys received from trusted sources.
### Resources
- Affected code: `keys/src/multisig/mod.rs`, `keys/src/multisig/commitment.rs`
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/security/advisories/GHSA-h9cc-w26m-j342
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46542
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/pull/3713
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/commit/3bc449a8138960c4de6bfd506bad1730c621d4de
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/releases/tag/v1.4.0