Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-7781
CVE-2017-7781
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.
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Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 92.0-1.2
- Range: unspecified
Patches
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References
4- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/100383nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039124nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/nvdVendor Advisory
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