CVE-2020-13822 (GCVE-0-2020-13822)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-04 14:01 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:25
VLAI
Summary
The Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding, leading '\0' bytes, or integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact if an application relied on a single canonical signature.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2333 records in the last 180 days details
References
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