GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-ph86-g9r3-5qw4 Uninitialized Variable in fastecdsa
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-21502
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- fastecdsa
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-457, CWE-908
- Reviewed
- 2025-02-12
Affected packages
• PyPI fastecdsa: < 2.3.2 → fixed in 2.3.2
Description
Versions of the package fastecdsa before 2.3.2 use an Uninitialized Variable on the stack, via the curvemath_mul function in src/curveMath.c, due to being used and interpreted as user-defined type. Depending on the variable's actual value it could be arbitrary free(), arbitrary realloc(), null pointer dereference and other. Since the stack can be controlled by the attacker, the vulnerability could be used to corrupt allocator structure, leading to possible heap exploitation. The attacker could cause denial of service by exploiting this vulnerability.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-21502 Versions of the package fastecdsa before 2.3.2 are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable on the stack, via the curvemath_mul function… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21502 advisory
- https://github.com/AntonKueltz/fastecdsa/commit/57fc5689c95d649dab7ef60cc99ac64589f01e36 web
- https://gist.github.com/keltecc/49da037072276f21b005a8337c15db26 web
- https://github.com/AntonKueltz/fastecdsa package
- https://github.com/AntonKueltz/fastecdsa/blob/v2.3.1/src/curveMath.c%23L210 web
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-FASTECDSA-6262045 web