openvm-org/openvm · Security
OpenVM allows the byte decomposition of pc in AUIPC chip to overflow
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-jf2r-x3j4-23m7
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-46723
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 7.8 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Description
The fix to https://cantina.xyz/code/c486d600-bed0-4fc6-aed1-de759fd29fa2/findings/21 has a typo that still results in the highest limb of pc being range checked to 8-bits instead of 6-bits.
In the AIR, we do https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/blob/0f94c8a3dfa7536c1231465d1bdee5fc607a5993/extensions/rv32im/circuit/src/auipc/core.rs#L135
for (i, limb) in pc_limbs.iter().skip(1).enumerate() {
if i == pc_limbs.len() - 1 {
It should be
for (i, limb) in pc_limbs.iter().enumerate().skip(1) {
Right now the if statement is never triggered because the enumeration gives i=0,1,2 when we instead want i=1,2,3. What this means is that pc_limbs[3] is range checked to 8-bits instead of 6-bits.
This leads to a vulnerability where the pc_limbs decomposition differs from the true pc, which means a malicious prover can make the destination register take a different value than the AUIPC instruction dictates, by making the decomposition overflow the BabyBear field.
CWEs
- CWE-131 · Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
References
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/security/advisories/GHSA-jf2r-x3j4-23m7 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46723 ↗
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/commit/68da4b50c033da5603517064aa0a08e1bbf70a01 ↗
- https://cantina.xyz/code/c486d600-bed0-4fc6-aed1-de759fd29fa2/findings/21 ↗
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/blob/0f94c8a3dfa7536c1231465d1bdee5fc607a5993/extensions/rv32im/circuit/src/auipc/core.rs#L135 ↗
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/releases/tag/v1.1.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jf2r-x3j4-23m7 ↗