CVE-2017-7781
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:12
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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