What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-42461: Elliptic allows BER-encoded signatures

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-347

Description

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed.

Affected products

• Elliptic Project Elliptic: 6.5.6
• Npm Elliptic: from 5.2.1 before 6.5.7 — fixed in 6.5.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Npm Elliptic 6.5.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

Get alerted when CVE-2024-42461 or the next vulnerability affects your stack