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SCA: security update for elliptic (GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418635

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2020-28498)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418635

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28498

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28498

cwe: CWE-327