Elliptic's ECDSA missing check for whether leading bit of r and s is zero

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Severity and exploitation

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.0046, the 39th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 2 Aug 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

• GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
• OSV: GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42460
• github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317
• github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11
• github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/b6ff1758d9a6d1a7aec177ff6df9f586492a6315
• github.com/indutny/elliptic
• security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0005

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