CVE-2020-28498

Cryptographic Issues

Medium · published February 2, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
68.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The package elliptic before 6.5.4 are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues via the secp256k1 implementation in elliptic/ec/key.js. There is no check to confirm that the public key point passed into the derive function actually exists on the secp256k1 curve. This results in the potential for the private key used in this implementation to be revealed after a number of ECDH operations are performed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01235 · 68.8th percentile
Published
2021-02-02T18:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 FEB 18:50Z
    Cryptographic Issues
    cvelistv5