What is CVE-2024-42459?

CVE-2024-42459 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic, classified under Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-08-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-42459?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-42459 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic

CVE-2024-42459

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, EDDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing signature length check, and thus zero-valued bytes can be removed or appended.

EPSS: 0.003 (21.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Indutny Elliptic — versions 6.5.6
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-347 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-42459?: CVE-2024-42459 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic, classified under Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-08-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-42459?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-42459 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.