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

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 2, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 15, 2024

Package

npm elliptic (npm)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, <= 6.5.6

Patched versions

6.5.7

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 2, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 2, 2024
Reviewed Aug 5, 2024
Last updated Aug 15, 2024

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-42460

GHSA ID

GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw

Source code

Credits

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