CVE-2020-28498 (GCVE-0-2020-28498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-02 18:50 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:00
VLAI
Title
Cryptographic Issues
Summary
The package elliptic before 6.5.4 are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues via the secp256k1 implementation in elliptic/ec/key.js. There is no check to confirm that the public key point passed into the derive function actually exists on the secp256k1 curve. This results in the potential for the private key used in this implementation to be revealed after a number of ECDH operations are performed.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Cryptographic Issues
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a elliptic Affected: < 6.5.4
Date Public
2021-02-02 00:00
Credits
Kyle Den Hartog
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