Cryptographic Issues Affecting org.webjars.npm:elliptic package, versions [,6.5.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1069836
  • published3 Feb 2021
  • disclosed26 Jan 2021
  • creditKyle Den Hartog

Introduced: 26 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-28498  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:elliptic to version 6.5.4 or higher.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:elliptic is a Fast elliptic-curve cryptography in a plain javascript implementation.

Affected versions of this package 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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