CVE-2026-4258

Published Mar 17, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 8.7 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Versions of the package sjcl before 1.0.9 are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature due to missing point-on-curve validation in sjcl.ecc.basicKey.publicKey(). An attacker can recover a victim's ECDH private key by sending crafted off-curve public keys and observing ECDH outputs. The dhJavaEc() function directly returns the raw x-coordinate of the scalar multiplication result (no hashing), providing a plaintext oracle without requiring any decryption feedback.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2w8x-224x-785m sjcl is missing point-on-curve validation in sjcl.ecc.basicKey.publicKey
History
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Description All versions of the package sjcl are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature due to missing point-on-curve validation in sjcl.ecc.basicKey.publicKey(). An attacker can recover a victim's ECDH private key by sending crafted off-curve public keys and observing ECDH outputs. The dhJavaEc() function directly returns the raw x-coordinate of the scalar multiplication result (no hashing), providing a plaintext oracle without requiring any decryption feedback. Versions of the package sjcl before 1.0.9 are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature due to missing point-on-curve validation in sjcl.ecc.basicKey.publicKey(). An attacker can recover a victim's ECDH private key by sending crafted off-curve public keys and observing ECDH outputs. The dhJavaEc() function directly returns the raw x-coordinate of the scalar multiplication result (no hashing), providing a plaintext oracle without requiring any decryption feedback.
References
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Bitwiseshiftleft stanford Javascript Crypto Library
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:bitwiseshiftleft:stanford_javascript_crypto_library:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
Vendors & Products Bitwiseshiftleft stanford Javascript Crypto Library
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-325
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Bitwiseshiftleft
Bitwiseshiftleft sjcl
Vendors & Products Bitwiseshiftleft
Bitwiseshiftleft sjcl
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description All versions of the package sjcl are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature due to missing point-on-curve validation in sjcl.ecc.basicKey.publicKey(). An attacker can recover a victim's ECDH private key by sending crafted off-curve public keys and observing ECDH outputs. The dhJavaEc() function directly returns the raw x-coordinate of the scalar multiplication result (no hashing), providing a plaintext oracle without requiring any decryption feedback.
Weaknesses CWE-347
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
snyk
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2026, 3:25 PM
Reserved
Mar 16, 2026, 10:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 17, 2026, 6:16 AM
Modified
Jul 28, 2026, 4:18 PM