GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw

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

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2024-42460

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	elliptic	>= 2.0.0, < 6.5.7	6.5.7

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460 advisory
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317 web
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11 web
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315 web
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic package
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005 web