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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-7781

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-7781

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2017-7781 - Bugzilla