CVE-2024-48948 (GCVE-0-2024-48948)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-25 15:41
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The Elliptic package 6.5.7 for Node.js, in its for ECDSA implementation, does not correctly verify valid signatures if the hash contains at least four leading 0 bytes and when the order of the elliptic curve's base point is smaller than the hash, because of an _truncateToN anomaly. This leads to valid signatures being rejected. Legitimate transactions or communications may be incorrectly flagged as invalid.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-15 13:57 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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