Security Advisory

CVE-2017-7781

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-06-11 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 16:12:28
Assigner mozilla
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.