CVE-2025-69277
libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.18% probability · 8th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-184
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
- https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/ad3004ec8731730e93fcfbbc824e67eadc1c1bae
- https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/96314884d88d1089ff5f336dba61d7abbcddbbf7
- https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/ecf41f55a3d8f1e10ce89c61c4b4d67f3f4467cf
- https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/issues/920
- https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00004.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.