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CVE-2024-42461

elliptic: nodejs/elliptic: ECDSA implementation malleability due to BER-enconded signatures being allowed

Published Modified CWE 347
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GHSA2.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Red Hat5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, CBL-Mariner. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), GHSA (low).

Description

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
CBL-Mariner 2.0reaper0:3.1.1-11.cm2
debian 11node-ellipticno fix listed
debian 12node-ellipticno fix listed
debian 13node-elliptic6.5.7+dfsg-1
debian 14node-elliptic6.5.7+dfsg-1
echonode-elliptic6.5.7+dfsg-1
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmelliptic6.5.7
rapidfort debian 12node-elliptic0:6.5.7+dfsg-1
rapidfort debian 13node-elliptic0:6.5.7+dfsg-1
Red Hatfirefox, grafana, grafana-azure-monitor and 14 moreno fix listed
seal npm::Seal Security Database@seal-security/elliptic, elliptic6.5.3-sp2
Show all 28 entries from 11 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
CBL-Mariner 2.0reaper0:3.1.1-11.cm2
debian 11node-ellipticno fix listed
debian 12node-ellipticno fix listed
debian 13node-elliptic6.5.7+dfsg-1
debian 14node-elliptic6.5.7+dfsg-1
echonode-elliptic6.5.7+dfsg-1
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmelliptic6.5.7
rapidfort debian 12node-elliptic0:6.5.7+dfsg-1
rapidfort debian 13node-elliptic0:6.5.7+dfsg-1
Red Hatfirefoxno fix listed
Red Hatgrafanano fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-azure-monitorno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-cloudwatchno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-elasticsearchno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-graphiteno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-influxdbno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-lokino fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-mssqlno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-mysqlno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-opentsdbno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-postgresno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-prometheusno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-selinuxno fix listed
Red Hatgrafana-stackdriverno fix listed
Red Hatrhel9/bootc-image-builderno fix listed
Red Hatthunderbirdno fix listed
seal npm::Seal Security Database@seal-security/elliptic6.5.3-sp2
seal npm::Seal Security Databaseelliptic6.5.3-sp2

References

All 9 references

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