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TI-2020-17301 Aliases CVE-2020-28498GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w

Cryptographic Issues

Priority LOW 33CWE-327Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-327.

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.0125 69th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed elliptic: 6.5.4elliptic (npm): 6.5.4

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—ellipticbefore 6.5.46.5.4Patch availableCNA
—elliptic (npm)before 6.5.46.5.4Patch availableGHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w
  • elliptic Vendor— Affected before 6.5.4 Fixed in 6.5.4 Patch available CNA
  • elliptic (npm) Vendor— Affected before 6.5.4 Fixed in 6.5.4 Patch available GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:indutny:elliptic:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*before 6.5.4VulnerableIndutny
  • cpe:2.3:a:indutny:elliptic:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* Versions before 6.5.4 Vulnerable ·Indutny

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA elliptic Fixed in 6.5.4
  • Fix · GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w elliptic (npm) Fixed in 6.5.4 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-28498
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w

References

Patch 1

Advisory 2

Other 2

  • TI-2024-28428 In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
  • TI-2024-28427 In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, EDDSA signature malleability occurs because… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
  • TI-2024-32636 The Elliptic package 6.5.7 for Node.js, in its for ECDSA implementation, does not… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
  • TI-2024-32637 The verify function in lib/elliptic/eddsa/index.js in the Elliptic package before 6.5.6… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2020-10810 The Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7

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