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Elliptic's EDDSA missing signature length check

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 2, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 15, 2024

Package

npm elliptic (npm)

Affected versions

>= 4.0.0, <= 6.5.6

Patched versions

6.5.7

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 2, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 2, 2024
Reviewed Aug 5, 2024
Last updated Aug 15, 2024

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-42459

GHSA ID

GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p

Source code

Credits

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