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CVE-2021-43571 — starkbank-ecdsa

CRITICAL

CVE-2021-43571 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-347 vulnerability in starkbank-ecdsa. 1 public exploit reference exists, so weaponization risk is real. A fix is available for starkbank-ecdsa — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in starkbank-ecdsa

Also known asGHSA-q9q6-f556-gpm7
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
1 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 9, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.0%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs63th percentile — riskier than 63% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.51%1.02%1.53%0.2%1.0%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2021-43571 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 385,738 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

29other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
starkbank-ecdsanpm
452Kdownloads / week

Description

The verify function in the Stark Bank Node.js ECDSA library (ecdsa-node) 1.1.2 fails to check that the signature is non-zero, which allows attackers to forge signatures on arbitrary messages.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmstarkbank-ecdsaall versions1.1.3npm install starkbank-ecdsa@1.1.3

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
ecdsa-nodestarkbank
1 version
1.1.2
Exploits & PoCs
1

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

The verify function in the Stark Bank Node.js ECDSA library (ecdsa-node)…

research.nccgroup.comNVDNov 2021

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for starkbank-ecdsa, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update starkbank-ecdsa to 1.1.3 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2021-43571 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

The verify function in the Stark Bank Node.js ECDSA library (ecdsa-node) 1.1.2 fails to check that the signature is non-zero, which allows attackers to forge signatures on arbitrary messages.
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CVE-2021-43571: starkbank-ecdsa — Fixed in 1.1.3