Timing Attack Affecting elliptic package, versions <6.5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-511941
  • published13 Nov 2019
  • disclosed2 Oct 2019
  • creditCentre for Research on Cryptography and Security

Introduced: 2 Oct 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade elliptic to version 6.5.2 or higher.

Overview

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

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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