GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/03/GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w/GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w
- Aliases
- Published
- 2021-03-08T16:06:50Z
- Modified
- 2025-01-08T07:27:09.070940Z
- Severity
-
- 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Elliptic Uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
- Details
-
The npm package
ellipticbefore version 6.5.4 are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues via the secp256k1 implementation in elliptic/ec/key.js. There is no check to confirm that the public key point passed into the derive function actually exists on the secp256k1 curve. This results in the potential for the private key used in this implementation to be revealed after a number of ECDH operations are performed. - Database specific
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-327" ], "github_reviewed_at": "2021-03-08T16:02:43Z", "github_reviewed": true, "nvd_published_at": "2021-02-02T19:15:00Z", "severity": "MODERATE" }- References
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- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28498
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/244/commits
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/441b7428b0e8f6636c42118ad2aaa186d3c34c3f
- https://github.com/christianlundkvist/blog/blob/master/2020_05_26_secp256k1_twist_attacks/secp256k1_twist_attacks.md
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1069836
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-1064899
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/elliptic
Affected packages
npm / elliptic
Package
- Name
- elliptic
- View open source insights on deps.dev
- Purl
- pkg:npm/elliptic