Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-ecdsa  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PYTHONECDSA-4409585
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed25 Sept 2019

Introduced: 25 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-14859  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-ecdsa package and not the python-ecdsa package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in all python-ecdsa versions before 0.13.3, where it did not correctly verify whether signatures used DER encoding. Without this verification, a malformed signature could be accepted, making the signature malleable. Without proper verification, an attacker could use a malleable signature to create false transactions.