Timing Attack Affecting elliptic Open this link in a new tab package, versions <6.5.2
Attack Complexity
High
Integrity
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-511941
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published
13 Nov 2019
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disclosed
2 Oct 2019
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credit
Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security
Introduced: 2 Oct 2019
CWE-362 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.