rust-ethereum Ethereum up to 0.17.x unusual condition

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in rust-ethereum Ethereum up to 0.17.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to unusual condition. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-53359. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in rust-ethereum Ethereum up to 0.17.x and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unusual condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-754. The product does not check or incorrectly checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that are not expected to occur frequently during day to day operation of the product. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-53359 since 06/27/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.18.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 2dd9d1d5d0936ec7350093ff3a5a7169a349db77 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-19744). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• rust-ethereum

Name

• Ethereum

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/rust-ethereum/ethereum/

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