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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2024-48948)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2024-48948)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3771-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38355: Fixed socket.io: unhandled 'error' event (bsc#1226967)
    - CVE-2024-38998: Fixed requirejs: prototype pollution via function config (bsc#1227248)
    - CVE-2024-38999: Fixed requirejs: prototype pollution via function s.contexts._.configure (bsc#1227252)
    - CVE-2024-39338: Fixed axios: server-side request forgery due to requests for path relative URLs being     processed as protocol relative URLs in axios (bsc#1229423)
    - CVE-2024-4067: Fixed micromatch: vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)     (bsc#1224366)
    - CVE-2024-4068: Fixed braces: fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to     Memory Exhaustion (bsc#1224295)
    - CVE-2024-43788: Fixed webpack: DOM clobbering gadget in AutoPublicPathRuntimeModule could lead to XSS     (bsc#1229861)
    - CVE-2024-48948: Fixed elliptic: ECDSA signature verification error due to leading zero may reject     legitimate transactions in elliptic (bsc#1231684)
    - CVE-2024-48949: Fixed elliptic: Missing Validation in Elliptic's EDDSA Signature Verification     (bsc#1231564)
    - CVE-2024-9014: Fixed OAuth2 issue that could lead to information leak (bsc#1230928)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
274076	SUSE SLED15: aws-cli / python311-boto3 / python311-botocore / python311-coverage / etc (SUSE-SU-2025:3744-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
421307	SCA: security update for elliptic (GHSA-fc9h-whq2-v747)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	low
421307	SCA: security update for elliptic (GHSA-fc9h-whq2-v747)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	low
230403	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-48948	Nessus	Misc.	medium
209968	SUSE SLED15: pgadmin4 / pgadmin4-cloud / pgadmin4-desktop / pgadmin4-doc / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:3771-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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