Vulnerability CVE-2017-7781


Published: 2018-06-11

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.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100383
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039124
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352039
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/

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