4.8

CVE-2024-48948: indutny elliptic

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48948DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48948GHSA-fc9h-whq2-v747
Published 15-10-2024Last modified 25-11-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-48948 is a medium (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability in indutny elliptic. EPSS estimates a 0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.8, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.8/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.55%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11220-1SUSE-SU-2024:3771-1SUSE-SU-2025:3744-1

Timeline

  1. 15-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 25-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.55%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

46%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.55% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Elliptic

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • node-ellipticAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.6.1+dfsg-1
Indutny1 product
Npm1 product
  • elliptic< 6.6.0
Opensuse1 product
  • python-pytest-html&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 4.1.1-3.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • node-ellipticAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 5 products

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