What is CVE-2024-48948?

CVE-2024-48948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic, classified under Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-10-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-48948?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic

CVE-2024-48948

The Elliptic package 6.5.7 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 th…

EPSS: 0.006 (42.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Indutny Elliptic — versions 6.5.7
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-347 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-48948?: CVE-2024-48948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic, classified under Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-10-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-48948?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.