CVE-2015-8803

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 12.3%
Published: 2/23/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8803

Description

The ecc_256_modp function in ecc-256.c in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-256 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8805.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)