High, CVSS 8.7crates.ioPublished
Poseidon V1 variable-length input collision via implicit zero-padding
CVE-2026-32129 · GHSA-g2p6-hh5v-7hfm
- Affected
- crates.io soroban-poseidon < 25.0.1
- Fixed in
- 25.0.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact Poseidon V1 (PoseidonSponge) accepts variable-length inputs without injective padding. When a caller provides fewer inputs than the sponge rate (inputs.len() < T - 1), unused rate positions are implicitly zero-filled. This allows trivial hash collisions: for any input vector [m1, ..., mk] hashed with a sponge of rate k, hash([m1, ..., mk]) equals hash([m1, ..., mk, 0]) because both produce identical pre-permutation states. This affects any use of PoseidonSponge or poseidonhash where the number of inputs is less than T - 1 (e.g., hashing 1 input with T=3). Poseidon2 (Poseidon2Sponge) is not affected — it encodes the input length in the capacity element (IV = inputlen << 64), making different-length inputs produce distinct states. Patches Fixed by enforcing inputs.len() == RATE in PoseidonSponge::computehash, matching circom's invariant that nInputs always equals T - 1. Users should upgrade to the next release containing this fix. Workarounds If upgrading is not immediately…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 25.0.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.