Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-14505

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The ECDSA implementation of the Elliptic package generates incorrect signatures if an interim value of 'k' as computed based on step 3.2 of RFC 6979...

Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation

Overview elliptic is a fast elliptic-curve cryptography implementation in plain javascript. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation due to the incorrect computation of the byte-length of k value with leading zeros resulting ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-14505

The ECDSA implementation of the Elliptic package generates incorrect signatures if an interim value of 'k' as computed based on step 3.2 of RFC 6979 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6979 has leading zeros and is susceptible to cryptanalysis, which can lead to secret key exposure. This...