GHSA-vh7m-p724-62c2
Signature Malleabillity in elliptic
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2020-13822
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Description
The Elliptic package before version 6.5.3 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| npm · elliptic | introduced 0, fixed 6.5.3 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13822 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/226 WEB
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/856fe4d99fe7b6200556e6400b3bf585b1721bec WEB
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic PACKAGE
- https://medium.com/%40herman_10687/malleability-attack-why-it-matters-7b5f59fb99a4 WEB
- https://medium.com/@herman_10687/malleability-attack-why-it-matters-7b5f59fb99a4 WEB
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/elliptic WEB
- https://yondon.blog/2019/01/01/how-not-to-use-ecdsa WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |