Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting node-elliptic package, versions <6.5.4~dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NODEELLIPTIC-1554982
  • published16 Feb 2021
  • disclosed2 Feb 2021

Introduced: 2 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-28498  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 node-elliptic to version 6.5.4~dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-elliptic package and not the node-elliptic package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

The package elliptic before 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.

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