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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2024-42460 json

Elliptic's ECDSA missing check for whether leading bit of r and s is zero

published 2024-08-02 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw , EUVD-2024-2543

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing check for whether the leading bit of r and s is zero.

Patch / fix

  • npm elliptic 6.5.7
  • node-elliptic Debian 14, Debian 13 6.5.7+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42460

  • velociraptor openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.7.0.4.git142.862ef23-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1

  • reaper CBL-Mariner 2.0 3.1.1-11

azure linux advisories AZL-47430

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-42460 updated cvss 5.3

elliptic: nodejs/elliptic: ECDSA signature malleability due to missing checks

  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Serverless elliptic
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 bootc-image-builder Red Hat Fuse 7 elliptic Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 elliptic Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 elliptic
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 elliptic Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager CLI ocm-cli-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-console Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/mcg-core-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argo-rollouts-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 elliptic
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
show 10 more
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.4 for RHEL 8 multicluster-engine/hive-rhel8 v2.4.6-9, multicluster-engine/work-rhel8 v2.4.6-12, multicluster-engine/discovery-rhel8 v2.4.6-27, multicluster-engine/placement-rhel8 v2.4.6-13, multicluster-engine/cluster-api-rhel8 v2.4.6-9, multicluster-engine/must-gather-rhel8 v2.4.6-6, +35 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8533
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 9 multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 v2.5.7-3, multicluster-engine/multicluster-engine-console-mce-rhel9 v2.5.7-3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6738
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6 for RHEL 8 multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-rhel8 v2.6.3-3, multicluster-engine/assisted-service-8-rhel8 v2.6.3-3, multicluster-engine/assisted-image-service-rhel8 v2.6.3-2, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-agent-rhel8 v2.6.3-3, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-controller-rhel8 v2.6.3-3 Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6 for RHEL 9 multicluster-engine/hive-rhel9 v2.6.3-4, multicluster-engine/work-rhel9 v2.6.3-5, multicluster-engine/discovery-rhel9 v2.6.3-6, multicluster-engine/placement-rhel9 v2.6.3-5, multicluster-engine/cluster-api-rhel9 v2.6.3-4, multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 v2.6.3-5, +28 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7759
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.9 for RHEL 8 rhacm2/thanos-rhel8 v2.9.5-8, rhacm2/console-rhel8 v2.9.5-33, rhacm2/memcached-rhel8 v2.9.5-6, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel8 v2.9.5-8, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel8 v2.9.5-8, rhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel8 v2.9.5-9, +38 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8546
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.10 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/console-rhel9 v2.10.6-3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6779
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9 v2.11.3-3, rhacm2/console-rhel9 v2.11.3-6, rhacm2/memcached-rhel9 v2.11.3-3, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 v2.11.3-5, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 v2.11.3-3, rhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9 v2.11.3-4, +37 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7994
  • Red Hat RHOSSM 2.4 for RHEL 8 openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8 2.4.10-4, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 1.65.15-3, openshift-service-mesh/grafana-rhel8 2.4.10-3, openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel8 2.4.10-3, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8 2.4.10-4, openshift-service-mesh/ratelimit-rhel8 2.4.10-3, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6209
  • Red Hat RHOSSM 2.5 for RHEL 8 openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8 2.5.4-4, openshift-service-mesh/grafana-rhel8 2.5.4-3, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 1.73.14-2, openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel8 2.5.4-2, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8 2.5.4-4, openshift-service-mesh/ratelimit-rhel8 2.5.4-3, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6210
  • Red Hat Builds for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-builds-waiters-rhel9 Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8 Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 8 multicluster-engine/hive-rhel8 v2.5.7-1, multicluster-engine/agent-service-rhel8 v2.5.7-2, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-rhel8 v2.5.7-1, multicluster-engine/assisted-image-service-rhel8 v2.5.7-1, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-agent-rhel8 v2.5.7-2, multicluster-engine/assisted-installer-reporter-rhel8 v2.5.7-1 Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.5 for RHEL 9 multicluster-engine/work-rhel9 v2.5.7-3, multicluster-engine/discovery-rhel9 v2.5.7-3, multicluster-engine/placement-rhel9 v2.5.7-3, multicluster-engine/cluster-api-rhel9 v2.5.7-2, multicluster-engine/must-gather-rhel9 v2.5.7-3, multicluster-engine/registration-rhel9 v2.5.7-3, +29 more Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed lightspeed-rhel9-operator Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.10 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9 v2.10.6-2, rhacm2/memcached-rhel9 v2.10.6-2, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 v2.10.6-2, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 v2.10.6-2, rhacm2/acm-operator-bundle v2.10.6-4, rhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9 v2.10.6-2, +37 more
    +5 more products
    Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcs, mozjs60, pcs-snmp Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gjs, pcs, polkit, pcs-snmp, polkit-libs Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack elliptic Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm elliptic
>=2.0.0, <6.5.7
6.5.7

Affected products

  • elliptic_project elliptic

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

References

Sources

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