Information Exposure Affecting ecdh package, versions <0.2.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ECDH-3331939
  • published26 Feb 2023
  • disclosed26 Feb 2023
  • creditshilohshi

Introduced: 26 Feb 2023

CVE-2022-44310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ecdh to version 0.2.0 or higher.

Overview

ecdh is a native Node.js module for ECDH and ECDSA

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the deriveSharedSecret() function in index.js, which allows an attacker to send an invalid point as the public key (a point not on the curve), and retrieve the derived shared secret.

CVSS Scores

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