CVE-2025-14505
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 7 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-23
The ECDSA implementation of the Elliptic package generates incorrect signatures if an interim value of 'k' (as computed based on step 3.2 of RFC 6979 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6979 ) has leading zeros and is susceptible to cryptanalysis, which can lead to secret key exposure. This happens, because the byte-length of 'k' is incorrectly computed, resulting in its getting truncated during the computation. Legitimate transactions or communications will be broken as a result. Furthermore, due to the nature of the fault, attackers could–under certain conditions–derive the secret key, if they could get their hands on both a faulty signature generated by a vulnerable version of Elliptic and a correct signature for the same inputs. This issue affects all known versions of Elliptic (at the time of writing, versions less than or equal to 6.6.1).
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affected products (2)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-848j-6mx2-7j84Elliptic Uses a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation2026-01-08ghsa · osvUS
The ECDSA implementation of the Elliptic package generates incorrect signatures if an interim value of 'k' (as computed based on step 3.2 of RFC 6979 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6979 ) has leading zeros and is susceptible to cryptanalysis, which can lead to secret key exposure. This happens, because the byte-length of 'k' is incorrectly computed, resulting in its getting truncated during the computation. Legitimate transactions or communications will be broken as a result. Furthermore, due to the nature of the fault, attackers could–under certain conditions–derive the secret key, if they could get their hands on both a faulty signature generated by a vulnerable version of Elliptic and a correct signature for the same inputs. This issue affects all known versions of Elliptic (at the time of writing, versions less than or equal to 6.6.1).
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references (6)
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- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/321cnnvd
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-14505cnnvd
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/321enisa_euvd
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-14505enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/321nvd
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-14505nvd
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