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node-elliptic — security advisory
The Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature.
- Products
- node-elliptic
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.5.3~dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13822
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13822
node-elliptic
Fixed versions: 6.5.3~dfsg-1
node-elliptic
Fixed versions: 6.5.3~dfsg-1
node-elliptic
Fixed versions: 6.5.3~dfsg-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 451221,
"published_at": "2020-06-04T15:15:13.51+00:00"
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