Elliptic Uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Description

The npm package elliptic before version 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.

Recommendation

Update the elliptic package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 6.5.4
• Patched version(s): 6.5.4

References

• GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w
• snyk.io
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-28498
• CWE-327
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A2
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Elliptic Uses a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation - CVE-2025-14505
• Signature Malleabillity in elliptic - CVE-2020-13822
• crypto-js uses insecure random numbers - CVE-2020-36732
• MJML allows mj-include directory traversal due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12827 - CVE-2025-67898

Tags:

npm

elliptic