PyPi: Ecdsa

CVE-2019-14859

Safety vulnerability ID: 37763

This vulnerability was reviewed by experts

The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Jan 02, 2020 Updated at Dec 10, 2024
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Advisory

A flaw was found in all python-ecdsa versions before 0.13.3, where it did not correctly verify whether signatures used DER encoding. Without this verification, a malformed signature could be accepted, making the signature malleable. Without proper verification, an attacker could use a malleable signature to create false transactions. See: CVE-2019-14859.

Affected package

ecdsa

Latest version: 0.19.0

ECDSA cryptographic signature library (pure python)

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

A flaw was found in all python-ecdsa versions before 0.13.3, where it did not correctly verify whether signatures used DER encoding. Without this verification, a malformed signature could be accepted, making the signature malleable. Without proper verification, an attacker could use a malleable signature to create false transactions.


CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14859: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14859
MISC:https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/issues/114: https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/issues/114
MISC:https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/releases/tag/python-ecdsa-0.13.3: https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/releases/tag/python-ecdsa-0.13.3
MISC:https://pypi.org/project/ecdsa/0.13.3/: https://pypi.org/project/ecdsa/0.13.3/

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

CRITICAL 9.1

CVSS v3 Details

CRITICAL 9.1
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
NONE

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 6.4
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
NONE