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SCA: security update for elliptic (GHSA-49q7-c7j4-3p7m)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421342

Description

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

 - In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded
 signatures are allowed. (CVE-2024-42461)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49q7-c7j4-3p7m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421342

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42461

cwe: CWE-347