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.
Published: 2018-06-11
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16756 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3391-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:12:28.301Z

Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7781

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:08.890

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:32:38.810

Link: CVE-2017-7781

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7781 - Bugzilla

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