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GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w

Elliptic Uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2020-28498

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm elliptic < 6.5.4 6.5.4

Details

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

The npm package `elliptic` before version 6.5.4 are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues via the secp256k1 implementation in elliptic/ec/key.js. There is no check to confirm that the public key point passed into the derive function actually exists on the secp256k1 curve. This results in the potential for the private key used in this implementation to be revealed after a number of ECDH operations are performed.

References

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