CVE-2017-7781
PoC —CVSS 3.0
5.9 medium
EPSS
3%p85
Published
()
Modified
Description
An error occurs in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates where it can yield a result "POINT_AT_INFINITY" when it should not. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this to interfere with a connection, resulting in an attacked party computing an incorrect shared secret. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.
- Vendors
- mozilla
- Products
- firefox
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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