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CVE-2017-1000168

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CVE-2017-1000168 describes a vulnerability in sodiumoxide versions 0.0.13 and older, where the scalarmult() function is susceptible to degenerate public keys. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can lead to high confidentiality impact without requiring user interaction, though it necessitates network access and low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.0.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sodiumoxide_project:sodiumoxide:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: sodiumoxideFixed in: 0.0.14

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-2wc6-2rcj-8v76medium

scalarmult() vulnerable to degenerate public keys

Aug 25, 2021

References

github.com / dnaq/sodiumoxide/issues/154
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory