CVE-2024-42461: Elliptic Project Elliptic

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed.

Affected products

• Elliptic Project Elliptic: version 6.5.6 only

Published 2024-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.