CVE-2026-32614: SM9 Infinity-Point Ciphertext Forgery Vulnerability
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The direct impact of this vulnerability is ciphertext forgery, not confidentiality loss.
- The attacker does not need the master public key, the user’s private key, or any other secret material.
- The attacker only needs to know the target UID to construct a seemingly valid ciphertext.
- When the recipient invokes the SM9 decryption API, the forged ciphertext decrypts successfully to attacker-chosen plaintext.
- The C3 integrity check also passes, so this is not merely a format bypass, but a full forgery.
This issue affects the following paths because they all eventually enter the same UnwrapKey logic:
sm9.Decryptsm9.DecryptASN1sm9.UnwrapKey
This means the issue affects not only public-key encryption/decryption, but also key encapsulation/decapsulation.
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