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SCA: security update for fastecdsa (GHSA-ph86-g9r3-5qw4)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421468

Description

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

 - Versions of the package fastecdsa before 2.3.2 are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable on the
 stack, via the curvemath_mul function in src/curveMath.c, due to being used and interpreted as user-
 defined type. Depending on the variable's actual value it could be arbitrary free(), arbitrary realloc(),
 null pointer dereference and other. Since the stack can be controlled by the attacker, the vulnerability
 could be used to corrupt allocator structure, leading to possible heap exploitation. The attacker could
 cause denial of service by exploiting this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-21502)

Solution

Update the fastecdsa library and its related packages to version 2.3.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ph86-g9r3-5qw4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421468

Version: Revision 1.7

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21502

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21502