GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.1) CWE-1023 vulnerability in jsrsasign. A fix is available for jsrsasign — see the affected versions and patch details below.
jsrsasign: Incomplete Comparison Allows DSA Private Key Recovery via Biased Nonce Generation
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,333 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, a proxy for how much of the ecosystem is exposed.
jsrsasignnpmDescription
Versions of the package jsrsasign from 7.0.0 and before 11.1.1 are vulnerable to Incomplete Comparison with Missing Factors via the getRandomBigIntegerZeroToMax and getRandomBigIntegerMinToMax functions in src/crypto-1.1.js; an attacker can recover the private key by exploiting the incorrect compareTo checks that accept out-of-range candidates and thus bias DSA nonces during signature generation.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | jsrsasign | ≥ 7.0.0&&< 11.1.1 | 11.1.1npm install jsrsasign@11.1.1 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for jsrsasign, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update jsrsasign to 11.1.1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
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.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.1 | migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-console-plugin-rhel9:1779139872 | RHSA-2026:19409 |
| Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.9 | migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-console-plugin-rhel9:1778927462 | RHSA-2026:19410 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.10 | quay/quay-rhel8:1775169155 | RHSA-2026:6912 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.12 | quay/quay-rhel8:1775253092 | RHSA-2026:6720 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.15 | quay/quay-rhel8:1775169219 | RHSA-2026:6568 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.16 | quay/quay-rhel9:1779204086 | RHSA-2026:19375 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.9 | quay/quay-rhel8:1775169218 | RHSA-2026:6926 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-5jx8-q4cp-rhh6 across npm dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.