vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2024-42461: elliptic: nodejs/elliptic: ECDSA implementation malleability due to BER-enconded signatures being allowed
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N) | Aug 2, 2024 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Aug 2, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025
Description
In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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