CVE-2026-41509

FAUCET Score

CROSS implementation contains reference and optimized implementations of the CROSS post-quantum signature algorithm. Prior to commit fc6b7e7, there is a buffer overflow in crypto_sign_open() caused by an underflow of the integer mlen. This issue has been patched via commit fc6b7e7.

First published: May 8, 2026Last modified: May 8, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 2026-03-23CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:cross-crypto:cross-implementation::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

6.9MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Attack Requirements

NONE

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

VS Confidentiality

NONE

VS Integrity

LOW

VS Availability

LOW

SS Confidentiality

NONE

SS Integrity

NONE

SS Availability

NONE

Exploit Maturity

NOT_DEFINED

CvssVersion

4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.34%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

26.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

References

github.com / CROSS-signature/CROSS-implementation/commit/fc6b7e78cdf789bb5c395a81dc601356f1383da0

Patch

github.com / CROSS-signature/CROSS-implementation/security/advisories/GHSA-w72c-hgx8-p7cv

Vendor Advisory