CVE-2024-26317
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.1 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Jan 27, 2025
Updated: Jan 28, 2025
CWE ID 327
Summary
CVE-2024-26317 is a vulnerability affecting the illumos-gate software in illumos systems, version 2024-02-15. The issue lies in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that employs mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates, leading to an incorrect result of POINT_AT_INFINITY under certain conditions. Maliciously positioned attackers can exploit this error to interfere with connections and cause the attacked party to compute incorrect shared secrets, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Affected Vendors
- Illumos