GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw

Elliptic's ECDSA missing check for whether leading bit of r and s is zero

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2024-42460
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS_V4
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Description

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing check for whether the leading bit of r and s is zero.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
npm · ellipticintroduced 2.0.0, fixed 6.5.7

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database