CVE-2024-42459 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in Node-elliptic

CWE-347 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic SignatureCWE-325 — Missing Cryptographic Step7 documents6 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 67.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Debian Node-ellipticIndutny EllipticMsrc Cbl2 Reaper 3.1.1-11 ON CBL Mariner 2.0+3 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 2
Latest updateAug 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages7 packages

▶debiandebian/node-elliptic< node-elliptic 6.5.7+dfsg-1 (forky)
▶npmindutny/elliptic4.0.0 — 6.5.7
▶NVDindutny/elliptic6.5.6

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
Elliptic's EDDSA missing signature length check↗2024-08-02
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OSV
CVE-2024-42459: In the Elliptic package 6↗2024-08-02
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OSV
Elliptic's EDDSA missing signature length check↗2024-08-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
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.↗2024-08-13
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Red Hat
elliptic: nodejs/elliptic: EDDSA signature malleability due to missing signature length check↗2024-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2024-42459: node-elliptic - In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, EDDSA signature malleability occurs b...↗2024
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