CVE-2024-42460
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.24%Elliptic's ECDSA missing check for whether leading bit of r and s is zero
Published: 8/2/2024Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/node-ellipticfrom 0
- npm/elliptic>= 2.0.0, < 6.5.7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-42460
- PATCHhttps://github.com/indutny/elliptic
- WEBhttps://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
- WEBhttps://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
- WEBhttps://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005