CVE: GHSA-vjh7-7g9h-fjfh Elliptic's private key extraction in ECDSA upon signing a malformed input (e.g. a string) (CRITICAL)

Affected versions: < 6.6.1

Patched version: 6.6.1

From: yarn.lock → npm/create-ecdh@4.0.4 → npm/elliptic@6.5.4

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Confidence: 0.96

Location: Package overview

From: yarn.lock → npm/buffer@4.9.2

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Suggestion: Packages should not obfuscate their code. Consider not using packages with obfuscated code.

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