SCA: security update for simplito/elliptic-php (GHSA-mr6r-82x4-f4jj)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422138

Description

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

- In elliptic-php versions priot to 1.0.6, Timing attacks might be possible which can result in practical
recovery of the long-term private key generated by the library under certain conditions. Leakage of a bit-
length of the scalar during scalar multiplication is possible on an elliptic curve which might allow
practical recovery of the long-term private key. (CVE-2019-10764)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mr6r-82x4-f4jj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422138

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10764

cwe: CWE-203