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CVE-2022-24884

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-24884 is a critical vulnerability in ecdsautils, a library and CLI tool for ECDSA operations, affecting all versions prior to 0.4.1. The flaw allows for trivial forgery of ECDSA signatures due to insufficient validation of signature values, where zero-value signatures are erroneously accepted as valid. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to achieve high integrity impact without user interaction. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, the ease of exploitation makes it a significant risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ecdsautils_project:ecdsautils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

10.0CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0100 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/commit/1d4b091abdf15ad7b2312535b5b95ad70f6dbd08
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/commit/39b6d0a77414fd41614953a0e185c4eefa2f88ad
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/security/advisories/GHSA-qhcg-9ffp-78pw
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4AKQH5WCBMJA3ODCSNERY6HVX4BX3ITG
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G2JT57AAFIEL7JDO2ZBV25JKYME5NU54
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L7UBR3M4U3LA46BHXYSH7EN5GDG44GK7
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5132
Third Party Advisory