Vulnerability · Published Jul 2, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-53359ethereum does not check transaction malleability for EIP-2930, EIP-1559 and EIP-7702 transactions
Medium 6.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in ethereum from rust-ethereum. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 36% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| rust-ethereum | ethereum | < 0.18.0 |
Weakness: CWE-754 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N