CVE-2024-48949
Aliases:GHSA-434g-2637-qmqrRHSA-2024:8351RHSA-2024:8507DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48949
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 10 Oct 2024, 00:00
Last modified:25 Nov 2025, 15:42
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100 CVSS Score
9.1 CRITICAL
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.5% LOW
0% probability +0.33%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
10 Oct 2024, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
25 Nov 2025, 15:42
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
The verify function in lib/elliptic/eddsa/index.js in the Elliptic package before 6.5.6 for Node.js omits "sig.S().gte(sig.eddsa.curve.n) || sig.S().isNeg()" validation.
CVSS Metrics
- v4.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.50%• Percentile: 42%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-347•Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.
Affected Systems
- debian•node-elliptic
all | all | < 6.5.7+dfsg-1 | < 6.5.7+dfsg-1
- indutny•elliptic
< 6.5.6
- Npm•elliptic
< 6.5.6
- redhat•grafana
< 0:7.3.6-8.el8_4 | < 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-azure-monitor
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-cloudwatch
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-debuginfo
< 0:7.3.6-8.el8_4 | < 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-elasticsearch
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-graphite
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-influxdb
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-loki
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-mssql
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-mysql
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-opentsdb
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-postgres
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-prometheus
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
- redhat•grafana-stackdriver
< 0:6.3.6-6.el8_2
References (17)
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/7ac5360118f74eb02da73bdf9f24fd0c72ff5281
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/compare/v6.5.5...v6.5.6
- https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0003/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48949
- https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0003
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8351
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317724
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_8351.json
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-48949
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48949
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8507
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_8507.json
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-48949