GHSA-vh7m-p724-62c2
Signature Malleabillity in elliptic
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
The Elliptic package before version 6.5.3 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13822
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/226
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/856fe4d99fe7b6200556e6400b3bf585b1721bec
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
- https://medium.com/%40herman_10687/malleability-attack-why-it-matters-7b5f59fb99a4
- https://medium.com/@herman_10687/malleability-attack-why-it-matters-7b5f59fb99a4
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/elliptic
- https://yondon.blog/2019/01/01/how-not-to-use-ecdsa