Is elliptic 0.15 vulnerable?

npm · 17 releases from 0.15.0 to 0.15.17 · latest elliptic is 6.6.1 · checked 2 Nov 2026

Yes: 6 known advisories

Yes. elliptic 0.15.17, the last 0.15 release, is affected by 6 known security advisories (1 critical, 1 high, 1 medium, 3 low), including CVE-2020-13822, CVE-2020-28498, CVE-2025-14505. At least one has no fixed release yet.

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Advisories affecting elliptic 0.15.17

  • LowCVE-2025-14505GHSA-848j-6mx2-7j848 Jan 2026

    Elliptic Uses a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation

    Affected
    <=6.6.1
    Fixed in
    No fix released
  • CriticalGHSA-vjh7-7g9h-fjfh12 Feb 2025

    Elliptic's private key extraction in ECDSA upon signing a malformed input (e.g. a string)

    Affected
    <6.6.1
    Fixed in
    6.6.1
  • LowCVE-2024-48948GHSA-fc9h-whq2-v74715 Oct 2024

    Valid ECDSA signatures erroneously rejected in Elliptic

    Affected
    <6.6.0
    Fixed in
    6.6.0
  • LowCVE-2024-48949GHSA-434g-2637-qmqr10 Oct 2024

    Elliptic's verify function omits uniqueness validation

    Affected
    <6.5.6
    Fixed in
    6.5.6
  • MediumCVE-2020-28498GHSA-r9p9-mrjm-926w8 Mar 2021

    Elliptic Uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

    Affected
    <6.5.4
    Fixed in
    6.5.4
  • HighCVE-2020-13822GHSA-vh7m-p724-62c229 Jul 2020

    Signature Malleabillity in elliptic

    Affected
    <6.5.3
    Fixed in
    6.5.3

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