Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting elliptic package, versions <6.5.6
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.08% (37th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-8172694
- published 10 Oct 2024
- disclosed 10 Oct 2024
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 10 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-48949 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade elliptic to version 6.5.6 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 improper range validation of the S value in the verify function, allowing the usage of an invalid signature.
Note:
This vulnerability could have a security-relevant impact if an application relies on the uniqueness of a signature.