GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p

Elliptic's EDDSA missing signature length check

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2024-42459

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	elliptic	>= 4.0.0, < 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, EDDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing signature length check, and thus zero-valued bytes can be removed or appended.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42459 advisory
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317 web
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11 web
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/c0690b36be043ee73c1780ae4b7df48632b11cf9 web
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic package
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005 web