starkbank/ecdsa-node · Security

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in starkbank-ecdsa

GHSA ID
GHSA-q9q6-f556-gpm7
CVE ID
CVE-2021-43571
Severity
critical
Published
Updated
CVSS
9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

The verify function in the Stark Bank Node.js ECDSA library (ecdsa-node) 1.1.2 fails to check that the signature is non-zero, which allows attackers to forge signatures on arbitrary messages.

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