High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Decentralized Anonymous Payment System (DAPS) through 2019-08-26. The content to be signed is composed of a representation of strings, rather than being composed of their binary representations. This is a weak signature scheme design that would allow the reuse of signatures in some cases (or even the reuse of signatures, intended for one type of message, for another type). This also affects Private Instant Verified Transactions (PIVX) through 3.4.0.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16753
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Decentralized Anonymous Payment System (DAPS) through 2019-08-26. The content to be signed is composed of a representation of strings, rather than being composed of their binary representations. This is a weak signature scheme design that would allow the reuse of signatures in some cases (or even the reuse of signatures, intended for one type of message, for another type). This also affects Private Instant Verified Transactions (PIVX) through 3.4.0.
osv:CVE-2019-16753
Complete source record
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"summary": "An issue was discovered in Decentralized Anonymous Payment System (DAPS) through 2019-08-26. The content to be signed is composed of a representation of strings, rather than being composed of their binary representations. This is a weak signature scheme design that would allow the reuse of signatures in some cases (or even the reuse of signatures, intended for one type of message, for another type). This also affects Private Instant Verified Transactions (PIVX) through 3.4.0.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.821573680Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-12-04T20:15:12.667+00:00"
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