PT-2025-2394 · Illumos · Illumos

Published 2025-01-27 · Updated 2025-01-27 · CVE-2024-26317

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: illumos illumos-gate (affected versions not specified)

Description: An error occurs in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates, causing the algorithm to yield a result of POINT AT INFINITY when it should not. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this to interfere with a connection, resulting in the attacked party computing an incorrect shared secret.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Use of a Broken Cryptographic Algorithm

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-327

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-26317

Affected Products

Illumos

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26317 · Security Note
• https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate · Note
• https://rashidkhanpathan.github.io/posts/CVE-2024-26317-Elliptic-curve-point-addition-error · Note
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aGLAFz20-fc7ZLiWouegyK_65jCkGTDb/view?usp=sharing · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1883932819337937220 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/16495 · Telegram Post