# CVE-2024-49364: tiny-secp256k1 vulnerable to private key extraction when signing a malicious JSON-stringifyable message in bundled environment

- Also known as: GHSA-7MC2-6PHR-23XC
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.7
- Published: 2025-07-01 · Updated: 2025-07-01

## Affected

- bitcoinjs tiny-secp256k1: fixed in 1.1.7
- tiny-secp256k1 (npm): fixed in 1.1.7

## Description

tiny-secp256k1 is a tiny secp256k1 native/JS wrapper. Prior to version 1.1.7, a private key can be extracted on signing a malicious JSON-stringifiable object, when global Buffer is the buffer package. This affects only environments where require('buffer') is the NPM buffer package. The Buffer.isBuffer check can be bypassed, resulting in k reuse for different messages, leading to private key extraction over a single invalid message (and a second one for which any message/signature could be taken, e.g. previously known valid one). This issue has been patched in version 1.1.7.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bitcoinjs tiny-secp256k1, tiny-secp256k1, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.7) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/bitcoinjs/tiny-secp256k1/security/advisories/GHSA-7mc2-6phr-23xc
- https://github.com/bitcoinjs/tiny-secp256k1/pull/140

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