SCA: security update for elliptic (GHSA-vh7m-p724-62c2)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419352

Description

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

- The Elliptic package 6.5.2 for Node.js allows ECDSA signature malleability via variations in encoding,
leading '\0' bytes, or integer overflows. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact if an
application relied on a single canonical signature. (CVE-2020-13822)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vh7m-p724-62c2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419352

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: 4.5

Percentile: 57.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13822

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13822

cwe: CWE-190