Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting nodejs-current package, versions <11.3.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-NODEJSCURRENT-8487793
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed29 Oct 2018

Introduced: 29 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-0735  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 nodejs-current to version 11.3.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs-current package and not the nodejs-current package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0j (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0i). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1a (Affected 1.1.1).

CVSS Scores

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