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Vulnerability details: VCID-t9fh-dydj-9bge
Vulnerability ID VCID-t9fh-dydj-9bge
Aliases CVE-2024-42460
GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
Summary Elliptic's ECDSA missing check for whether leading bit of r and s is zero In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing check for whether the leading bit of r and s is zero.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.8
Risk 2.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-325 Missing Cryptographic Step
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-42460.json
epss 0.00241 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-42460
epss 0.00241 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-42460
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1_qr LOW https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
cvssv4 2.7 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
cvssv4 2.7 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
cvssv4 2.7 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
cvssv4 2.7 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
ssvc Track https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
cvssv4 2.7 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
generic_textual LOW https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005
cvssv4 2.7 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005
generic_textual LOW https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-42460.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-42460
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-42460
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005
1077821 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1077821
2302459 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302459
CVE-2024-42460 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
RHSA-2024:6209 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6209
RHSA-2024:6210 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6210
RHSA-2024:6738 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6738
RHSA-2024:6779 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6779
RHSA-2024:7759 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7759
RHSA-2024:7994 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7994
RHSA-2024:8533 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8533
RHSA-2024:8546 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8546
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-42460.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
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Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
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Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
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Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
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Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-08-02T15:06:17Z/ Found at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
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Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005
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Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.47595
EPSS Score 0.00241
Published At June 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:22:06.943246+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/elliptic/CVE-2024-42460.yml 38.6.0