Critical
Security advisory
The verify function in the Stark Bank Java ECDSA library (ecdsa-java) 1.0.0 fails to check that the signature is non-zero, which allows attackers to forge signatures on arbitrary messages.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-43570
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The verify function in the Stark Bank Java ECDSA library (ecdsa-java) 1.0.0 fails to check that the signature is non-zero, which allows attackers to forge signatures on arbitrary messages.
osv:CVE-2021-43570
Complete source record
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