Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-42460

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 02 August 2024

Published
02 August 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
—
Patch
—
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0024 47.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-42460 is a medium-severity Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency (CWE-130) vulnerability in Indutny Elliptic. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 47.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature malleability occurs because there is a missing check for whether the leading bit of r and s is zero.

CWE(s)
CWE-130

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

indutny
elliptic
6.5.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References