vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-7781: Mozilla: Elliptic curve point addition error when using mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates (MFSA 2017-18)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution

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