CVE-2020-28498
Elliptic Uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
medium entropyGHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926wCVE-2020-28498
Entropy / wallet impact
elliptic: The npm package `elliptic` before version 6.5.4 are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues via the secp256k1 implementation in elliptic/ec/key.js.
Description
The npm package elliptic before version 6.5.4 are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues via the secp256k1 implementation in elliptic/ec/key.js. There is no check to confirm that the public key point passed into the derive function actually exists on the secp256k1 curve. This results in the potential for the private key used in this implementation to be revealed after a number of ECDH operations are performed.
Affected
| Kind | Name | Ecosystem | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| package | elliptic | npm | < 6.5.4 |
CWE
Primary sources
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w (ghsa)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28498 (ghsa)
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/244/commits (ghsa)
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/441b7428b0e8f6636c42118ad2aaa186d3c34c3f (ghsa)
- https://github.com/christianlundkvist/blog/blob/master/2020_05_26_secp256k1_twist_attacks/secp256k1_twist_attacks.md (ghsa)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1069836 (ghsa)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-1064899 (ghsa)
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/elliptic (ghsa)