What is CVE-2024-48949?

CVE-2024-48949 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic, classified under Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2024-10-10.

How severe is CVE-2024-48949?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic

CVE-2024-48949

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.

Published 2024-10-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (40.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 40th percentile — 40.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Indutny Elliptic

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-347 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-48949?: CVE-2024-48949 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic, classified under Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2024-10-10.
How severe is CVE-2024-48949?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.