Critical
node-elliptic — security advisory
In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed.
- Products
- node-elliptic
- Affected versions
- 6.4.0+dfsg-1, 6.5.1~dfsg-1, 6.5.1~dfsg-2, 6.5.4~dfsg-1, 6.5.4~dfsg-2, 6.6.1+dfsg+~6.4.18-1, 6.6.1+dfsg+~6.4.18-2, 6.6.1+dfsg-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-42461
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42461
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Complete source record
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