CVE-2024-49364
tiny-secp256k1 vulnerable to private key extraction when signing a malicious JSON-stringifyable message in bundled environment
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.1 High
- Published
- Jul 1, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 1, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 14, 2024
Description
tiny-secp256k1 is a tiny secp256k1 native/JS wrapper. Prior to version 1.1.7, a private key can be extracted on signing a malicious JSON-stringifiable object, when global Buffer is the buffer package. This affects only environments where require('buffer') is the NPM buffer package. The Buffer.isBuffer check can be bypassed, resulting in k reuse for different messages, leading to private key extraction over a single invalid message (and a second one for which any message/signature could be taken, e.g. previously known valid one). This issue has been patched in version 1.1.7.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.1 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
tiny-secp256k1bitcoinjs |
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References
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