PT-2024-29954 · Elliptic+1 · Elliptic+1

Staypirate · Published 2024-08-02 · Updated 2026-04-26 · CVE-2024-42459

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elliptic package version 6.5.6

Description The issue concerns EDDSA signature malleability due to a missing signature length check, allowing zero-valued bytes to be removed or appended. This is a cryptographic weakness that can be exploited.

Recommendations For Elliptic package version 6.5.6, patch immediately to prevent exploitation of this weakness.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-347

Related Identifiers

AZL-47421

CVE-2024-42459

GHSA-F7Q4-PWC6-W24P

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1

Affected Products

Debian

Elliptic

References · 47

• 🔥 https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317 · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-42459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42459 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-47421 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42459 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/indutny/elliptic · Note
• https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/c0690b36be043ee73c1780ae4b7df48632b11cf9 · Note
• https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/commit/accb61e9c1a005e5c8ff96a8b33893100bb42d11 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-55565 · Note