indutny/elliptic · Security
Elliptic's ECDSA missing check for whether leading bit of r and s is zero
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-42460
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 2.7 · 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.
CWEs
- CWE-130 · Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460 ↗
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317 ↗
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315 ↗
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11 ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw ↗