CVE-2020-13822

Summary

CVECVE-2020-13822
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-04 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:16:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elliptic Project Elliptic 6.5.2 All All All
Application Elliptic Project Elliptic 6.5.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
elliptic MISC www.npmjs.com Third Party Advisory
Malleability-Attack: Why It Matters – Herman Schoenfeld – Medium MISC medium.com Third Party Advisory
How Not to Use ECDSA – Learning Words MISC yondon.blog Third Party Advisory
Lack of encoding checks allows a certain degree of signature malleability in ECDSA signatures · Issue #226 · indutny/elliptic · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Malleability-Attack: Why It Matters | by Herman Schoenfeld | Medium medium.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378599 Splunk Enterprise Third Party Package Updates for June (SVD-2023-0613)
  • 980730 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for elliptic (GHSA-vh7m-p724-62c2)
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