CVE-2017-7781

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 11, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Apr 12, 2017

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 55Affected

References

100383vdb-entry
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/
1039124vdb-entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352039

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