CVE-2024-48949 json
Elliptic's verify function omits uniqueness validation
published 2024-10-10 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-434g-2637-qmqr , EUVD-2024-2924
- cvss
- 9.1
- 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 42%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
The verify function in lib/elliptic/eddsa/index.js in the Elliptic package before 6.5.6 for Node.js omits "sig.S().gte(sig.eddsa.curve.n) || sig.S().isNeg()" validation.
Patch / fix
- npm elliptic 6.5.6
- indutny elliptic 6.5.6
- node-elliptic Debian 14, Debian 13 6.5.7+dfsg-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48949
- grafana RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
- grafana-loki RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
- grafana-mssql RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
- grafana-mysql RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
- grafana-graphite RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
- grafana-influxdb RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
- grafana-opentsdb RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
- grafana-postgres RHEL 8.2 AUS 6.3.6-6.el8_2
red hat advisories RHSA-2024:8507RHSA-2024:8351
- aws-cli SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 1.33.26-150400.34.7.1
- python-boto3 SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 1.34.138-150400.27.7.1
- python-flaky openSUSE Leap 15.6 3.8.1-150400.14.6.1
- python-pluggy SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +8 more 1.5.0-150400.14.10.1
- python-pytest SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +8 more 8.3.5-150400.3.9.1
- python-botocore SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 1.34.144-150400.41.7.1
- python-coverage SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +9 more 7.6.10-150400.12.6.1
- python-pytest-cov SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +8 more 6.2.1-150400.12.6.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:3744-1SUSE-SU-2024:3771-1
- python-pytest-html openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.2.0-4.1
- velociraptor openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.7.0.4.git142.862ef23-1.1
- python-pytest-html openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.1.1-2.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11220-1openSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14403-1
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-2024-48949 updated cvss 8.2
elliptic: Missing Validation in Elliptic's EDDSA Signature Verification
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Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-api-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-db-migration-rhel8 Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp2/system-rhel7affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbirdaffected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 moreaffected: workaround, no fix available
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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-consoleaffected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
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Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/mcg-core-rhel8affected: workaround, no fix available
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Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argo-rollouts-rhel8affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
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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 morefixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8533
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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 v2.5.7-3fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6738
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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 morefixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8546
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.10 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/console-rhel9 v2.10.6-3fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6779
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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 morefixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7994
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9 v2.12.0-18, rhacm2/acm-cli-rhel9 v2.12.0-17, rhacm2/console-rhel9 v2.12.0-68, rhacm2/memcached-rhel9 v2.12.0-7, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 v2.12.0-14, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 v2.12.0-17, +40 morefixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8974
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2) grafana 6.3.6-6.el8_2, grafana-loki 6.3.6-6.el8_2, grafana-mssql 6.3.6-6.el8_2, grafana-mysql 6.3.6-6.el8_2, grafana-graphite 6.3.6-6.el8_2, grafana-influxdb 6.3.6-6.el8_2, +7 morefixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8507
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4) grafana 7.3.6-8.el8_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4) grafana 7.3.6-8.el8_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4) grafana 7.3.6-8.el8_4fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8351
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Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3 devspaces/dashboard-rhel8 3.17-25fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:10236
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Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.15 openshift-pipelines v1.15.3-1746939886fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:8078
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Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.16 openshift-pipelines v1.16.4-1747983385fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:8512
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Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.17 openshift-pipelines v1.17.2-1749452800fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:9294
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Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.18.0 openshift-pipelines v1.18.1-1747749913fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:8233
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Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.19 openshift-pipelines v1.19.0-1752127853fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:10853
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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 Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel8 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 Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9, rhdh-operator-containernot affected: vulnerable code not present
+10 more productsfewer
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcs, mozjs60, pcs-snmp Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gjs, pcs, polkit, pcs-snmp, polkit-libs Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3 devspaces/udi-rhel8 3.17-9, devspaces/idea-rhel8 3.17-4, devspaces/code-rhel8 3.17-19, devspaces/server-rhel8 3.17-9, devspaces/traefik-rhel8 3.17-4, devspaces/configbump-rhel8 3.17-4, +5 more Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.15 openshift-pipelines v1.15.3-1746932952, openshift-pipelines v1.15.3-1746936046, openshift-pipelines v1.15.3-1746936073, openshift-pipelines v1.15.3-1746936235, openshift-pipelines v1.15.3-1746936239, openshift-pipelines v1.15.3-1746936240, +18 more Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.16 openshift-pipelines v1.16.4-1747946909, openshift-pipelines v1.16.4-1747947002, openshift-pipelines v1.16.4-1747947005, openshift-pipelines v1.16.4-1747947013, openshift-pipelines v1.16.4-1747977856, openshift-pipelines v1.16.4-1747977902, +16 more Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.17 openshift-pipelines v1.17.2-1749366426, openshift-pipelines v1.17.2-1749366428, openshift-pipelines v1.17.2-1749366439, openshift-pipelines v1.17.2-1749367282, openshift-pipelines v1.17.2-1749375519, openshift-pipelines v1.17.2-1749375557, +17 more Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.18.0 openshift-pipelines v1.18.1-1747354617, openshift-pipelines v1.18.1-1747354646, openshift-pipelines v1.18.1-1747354673, openshift-pipelines v1.18.1-1747354692, openshift-pipelines v1.18.1-1747354784, openshift-pipelines v1.18.1-1747354792, +21 more Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.19 openshift-pipelines v1.19.0-1751298349, openshift-pipelines v1.19.0-1751298356, openshift-pipelines v1.19.0-1751298397, openshift-pipelines v1.19.0-1751298467, openshift-pipelines v1.19.0-1751364295, openshift-pipelines v1.19.0-1751364300, +15 more Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
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
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 2 y ago
Exploit prediction
0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA ADP | 3.1 | 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVD | 3.1 | 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| CNA | 3.1 | 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| GitHub | 3.1 | 5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
Affected packages
| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | elliptic | <6.5.6 |
6.5.6 |
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
References
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github.com
/indutny/elliptic/commit/7ac5360118f74eb02da73bdf9f24fd0c72ff5281
web, patch
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github.com
/indutny/elliptic/compare/v6.5.5...v6.5.6
web, patch
- blog.trailofbits.com /2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/
- security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20241227-0003/
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nvd.nist.gov
/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48949
advisory
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blog.trailofbits.com
/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof
web
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github.com
/indutny/elliptic
package
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security.netapp.com
/advisory/ntap-20241227-0003
web
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2024-48949
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-434g-2637-qmqr
- NVD CVE-2024-48949
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