Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting tiny-secp256k1 package, versions <1.1.7
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- published18 Jul 2025
- disclosed30 Jun 2025
- creditNikita Skovoroda
Introduced: 30 Jun 2025
NewCVE-2024-49364 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade tiny-secp256k1 to version 1.1.7 or higher.
Overview
tiny-secp256k1 is an A tiny secp256k1 JS
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials while signing a single message in a malicious JSON-stringifiable object in environments where the global buffer is provided by the buffer package. An attacker can extract private keys by crafting a specially constructed message that bypasses input validation in Buffer.isBuffer and causes key reuse from previously known valid message/signature pair.