Cryptographic Issues Affecting mozilla package, versions [,55.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378346
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-7781  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 55.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues. 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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