CVE-2025-46723

OpenVM byte decomposition of pc in AUIPC chip can overflow

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:26 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenvm

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

OpenVM is a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility. In version 1.0.0, OpenVM is vulnerable to overflow through byte decomposition of pc in AUIPC chip. A typo results in the highest limb of pc being range checked to 8-bits instead of 6-bits. This results in the if statement never being triggered because the enumeration gives i=0,1,2, when instead the enumeration should give i=1,2,3, leaving pc_limbs[3] 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. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.0.

Affected

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Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-131

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