SCA: security update for msrcrypto (GHSA-9x9j-836w-8f55)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413546

Description

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

- A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in the MSR JavaScript Cryptography Library that is caused
by multiple bugs in the library’s Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) implementation.An attacker could
potentially abuse these bugs to learn information about a server’s private ECC key (a key leakage
attack) or craft an invalid ECDSA signature that nevertheless passes as valid.The security update
addresses the vulnerability by fixing the bugs disclosed in the ECC implementation, aka 'MSR JavaScript
Cryptography Library Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'. (CVE-2020-1026)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9x9j-836w-8f55

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 413546

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1026

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1026

cwe: CWE-682