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CVE-2025-69277
medium
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.
References
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00004.html
https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html
https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/issues/920
https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/ecf41f55a3d8f1e10ce89c61c4b4d67f3f4467cf
https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/commit/96314884d88d1089ff5f336dba61d7abbcddbbf7
https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/ad3004ec8731730e93fcfbbc824e67eadc1c1bae