CVE-2024-42459

5.3 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.3) in indutny elliptic. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in elliptic 6.5.7.

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, EDDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing signature length check, and thus zero-valued bytes can be removed or appended.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 22% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-347
Published: 2024-08-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

indutny:elliptic

Packages (OSV)

Advisory	Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p	npm	elliptic	>=4.0.0 <6.5.7	6.5.7

References

https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005/

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