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CVE-2023-44378

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-44378 affects consensys gnark, a zk-SNARK library, where prior to version 0.9.0, specific in-circuit values could have two valid bit decompositions due to field overflow, allowing for an alternative decomposition of 'a+r' instead of the canonical 'a'. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and leading to a high integrity impact without affecting confidentiality or availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:consensys:gnark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/consensys/gnarkFixed in: 0.9.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-498w-5j49-vqjgmedium

gnark unsoundness in variable comparison / non-unique binary decomposition

Oct 4, 2023

References

github.com / Consensys/gnark/commit/59a4087261a6c73f13e80d695c17b398c3d0934f
Patch
github.com / Consensys/gnark/security/advisories/GHSA-498w-5j49-vqjg
MitigationPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / zkopru-network/zkopru/issues/116
Not Applicable