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Timing Attack Affecting elliptic Open this link in a new tab package, versions <6.5.2

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    High

  • Integrity

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-511941

  • published

    13 Nov 2019

  • disclosed

    2 Oct 2019

  • credit

    Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security

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Introduced: 2 Oct 2019

CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade elliptic to version 6.5.2 or higher.

Overview

elliptic is a Fast elliptic-curve cryptography in a plain javascript implementation.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. Practical recovery of the long-term private key generated by the library is possible under certain conditions. Leakage of bit-length of a scalar during scalar multiplication is possible on an elliptic curve which might allow practical recovery of the long-term private key.