CVE-2022-23002CWE-703

Point Compression/Decompression of NIST P-256 points with X coordinate of zero

Medium · published July 29, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

When compressing or decompressing a point on the NIST P-256 elliptic curve with an X coordinate of zero, the resulting output is not properly reduced modulo the P-256 field prime and is invalid. The resulting output will cause an error when used in other operations. This may be leveraged by an attacker to cause an error scenario in applications which use the library, resulting in a limited denial of service for an individual user. The scope of impact cannot extend to other components.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00720 · 53.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-703 · Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2022-07-29T18:52Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 JUL 18:52Z
    Point Compression/Decompression of NIST P-256 points with X coordinate of zero
    cvelistv5