2025-09-04 23:50CVE-2025-58359GitHub_M
PUBLISHED5.1CWE-325

frost-core: refresh shares with smaller min_signers will reduce group security

ZF FROST is a Rust implementation of FROST (Flexible Round-Optimised Schnorr Threshold signatures). In versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.0, refresh shares with smaller min_signers will reduce security of group. The inability to change min_signers (i.e. the threshold) with the refresh share functionality (frost_core::keys::refresh module) was not made clear to users. Using a smaller value would not decrease the threshold, and attempts to sign using a smaller threshold would fail. Additionally, after refreshing the shares with a smaller threshold, it would still be possible to sign with the original threshold, potentially causing a security loss to the participant's shares. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.0.

Problem type

Affected products

ZcashFoundation

frost

>= 2.0.0, < 2.2.0 - AFFECTED

References

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Mitre source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-58359