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Fault Injection of EdDSA signature in WolfCrypt

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Fault Injection vulnerability in wc_ed25519_sign_msg function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/ed25519.c in WolfSSL wolfssl5.6.6 on Linux/Windows allows remote attacker co-resides in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges via Rowhammer fault injection to the ed25519_key structure.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-2881
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 04:52 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Fault Injection of EdDSA signature in WolfCrypt

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Aug 2024, 23:10 UTC

Fault Injection vulnerability in wc_ed25519_sign_msg function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/ed25519.c in WolfSSL wolfssl5.6.6 on Linux/Windows allows remote attacker co-resides in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges via Rowhammer fault injection to the ed25519_key structure.

osv:CVE-2024-2881
Complete source record
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    "summary": "Fault Injection vulnerability in wc_ed25519_sign_msg function in wolfssl/wolfcrypt/src/ed25519.c in WolfSSL wolfssl5.6.6 on Linux/Windows allows remote attacker co-resides in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges via Rowhammer fault injection to the ed25519_key structure.",
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