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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXA4YzMtN3JqOC1xOTYz

ECDSA signature validation vulnerability by accepting wrong ASN.1 encoding in jsrsasign

Impact

Jsrsasign supports ECDSA signature validation which signature value is represented by ASN.1 DER encoding. This vulnerablity may accept a wrong ASN.1 DER encoded ECDSA signature such as:

This vulnerability was fixed by strict ASN.1 DER checking.

Here is an assessment of this vulnerability:

As discussed here, there is no standards like X9.62 which requires ASN.1 DER. So ASN.1 BER can be applied to ECDSA however most of implementations like OpenSSL do strict ASN.1 DER checking.

Patches

Users using ECDSA signature validation should upgrade to 8.0.19.

Workarounds

Do strict ASN.1 DER checking for ASN.1 encoded ECDSA signature value.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14966
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14966
https://vuldb.com/?id.157123
https://github.com/kjur/jsrsasign/issues/437
https://kjur.github.io/jsrsasign/api/symbols/KJUR.crypto.ECDSA.html
https://kjur.github.io/jsrsasign/api/symbols/ASN1HEX.html#.checkStrictDER
https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.690

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p8c3-7rj8-q963
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXA4YzMtN3JqOC1xOTYz
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: almost 4 years ago
Updated: about 1 year ago


CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-p8c3-7rj8-q963, CVE-2020-14966
References: Repository: https://github.com/kjur/jsrsasign

Affected Packages

npm:jsrsasign
Dependent packages: 731
Dependent repositories: 8,042
Downloads: 1,635,299 last month
Affected Version Ranges: >= 4.0.0, < 8.0.19
Fixed in: 8.0.19
All affected versions: 4.8.2, 4.8.3, 4.8.4, 4.8.5, 4.8.6, 4.9.0, 4.9.1, 4.9.2, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9, 5.0.10, 5.0.11, 5.0.12, 5.0.13, 5.0.14, 5.0.15, 5.1.0, 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.5, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10, 8.0.11, 8.0.12, 8.0.13, 8.0.14, 8.0.15, 8.0.16, 8.0.17, 8.0.18
All unaffected versions: 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 8.0.19, 8.0.20, 8.0.21, 8.0.22, 8.0.23, 8.0.24, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.1.7, 9.1.8, 9.1.9, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5, 10.1.0, 10.1.1, 10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4, 10.1.5, 10.1.6, 10.1.7, 10.1.8, 10.1.9, 10.1.10, 10.1.11, 10.1.12, 10.1.13, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.3.2, 10.4.0, 10.4.1, 10.5.0, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, 10.5.5, 10.5.6, 10.5.7, 10.5.8, 10.5.9, 10.5.10, 10.5.11, 10.5.12, 10.5.13, 10.5.14, 10.5.15, 10.5.16, 10.5.17, 10.5.18, 10.5.19, 10.5.20, 10.5.21, 10.5.22, 10.5.23, 10.5.24, 10.5.25, 10.5.26, 10.5.27, 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.7.0, 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2, 10.8.3, 10.8.4, 10.8.5, 10.8.6, 10.9.0, 11.0.0, 11.1.0