Incorrect Calculation in the MSR JavaScript Cryptography Library
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Jan 6, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 1, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 15, 2020
Reviewed
May 25, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jan 6, 2022
Last updated
Feb 1, 2023
A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in the MSR JavaScript Cryptography Library that is caused by multiple bugs in the library's Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) implementation.An attacker could potentially abuse these bugs to learn information about a server's private ECC key (a key leakage attack) or craft an invalid ECDSA signature that nevertheless passes as valid.The security update addresses the vulnerability by fixing the bugs disclosed in the ECC implementation, aka
MSR JavaScript Cryptography Library Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
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