MEDIUM4.8
GHSA-fc9h-whq2-v747
Valid ECDSA signatures erroneously rejected in Elliptic
Quick fix
GHSA-fc9h-whq2-v747 — elliptic: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install elliptic@6.6.0Details
The Elliptic prior to 6.6.0 for Node.js, in its for ECDSA implementation, does not correctly verify valid signatures if the hash contains at least four leading 0 bytes and when the order of the elliptic curve's base point is smaller than the hash, because of an _truncateToN anomaly. This leads to valid signatures being rejected. Legitimate transactions or communications may be incorrectly flagged as invalid.
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48948[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/321[WEB]
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/322[WEB]
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/34c853478cec1be4e37260ed2cb12cdbdc6402cf[WEB]
- https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof[WEB]
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic[PACKAGE]
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241220-0004[WEB]