CVE-2017-12974

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.14%

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in Nimbus JOSE+JWT

Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 11/8/2023

Description

Nimbus JOSE+JWT before 4.36 proceeds with ECKey construction without ensuring that the public x and y coordinates are on the specified curve, which allows attackers to conduct an Invalid Curve Attack in environments where the JCE provider lacks the applicable curve validation.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (6)