CVE-2024-42459
Elliptic's EDDSA missing signature length check
medium entropyCVE-2024-42459GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p
Entropy / wallet impact
elliptic: 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.
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.
Affected
| Kind | Name | Ecosystem | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| package | elliptic | npm | >= 4.0.0, <= 6.5.6 |
CWE
Primary sources
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p (ghsa)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42459 (ghsa)
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317 (ghsa)
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/c0690b36be043ee73c1780ae4b7df48632b11cf9 (ghsa)
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11 (ghsa)
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005 (ghsa)
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic (osv)