CVE-2020-28498

Publication date 2 February 2021

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.8 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

The package elliptic before 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. This results in the potential for the private key used in this implementation to be revealed after a number of ECDH operations are performed.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
node-elliptic 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.8 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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