GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-vh7m-p724-62c2 Signature Malleabillity in elliptic
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-13822
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- elliptic
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
- Reviewed
- 2020-07-29
Affected packages
• npm elliptic: < 6.5.3 → fixed in 6.5.3
Description
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-13822 The Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or integer… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13822 advisory
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/226 web
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/856fe4d99fe7b6200556e6400b3bf585b1721bec web
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic package
- https://medium.com/%40herman_10687/malleability-attack-why-it-matters-7b5f59fb99a4 web
- https://medium.com/@herman_10687/malleability-attack-why-it-matters-7b5f59fb99a4 web
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/elliptic web
- https://yondon.blog/2019/01/01/how-not-to-use-ecdsa web