Vulnerability in Rust-Ethereum Ethereum

CVE-2025-53359

ethereum is a common ethereum structs for Rust. Prior to ethereum crate v0.18.0, signature malleability (according to EIP-2) was only checked for "legacy" transactions, but not for EIP-2930, EIP-1559 and EIP-7702 transactions. This is a specification deviation. The signature malleability itself is not a security issue and not as high of a risk if the ethereum crate is used on a single-implementation blockchain. This issue has been patched in version v0.18.0. A workaround for this issue involves manually checking transaction malleability outside of the crate, however upgrading is recommended.

EPSS: 0.004 (27.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Rust-ethereum Ethereum — versions < 0.18.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-754 — Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)