CVE-2015-2730

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-07-02
CWE:
CWE-347
Bugzilla:
1236954: CVE-2015-2730 NSS: ECDSA signature validation fails to handle some signatures correctly (MFSA 2015-64)
A flaw was found in the way NSS verified certain ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) signatures. Under certain conditions, an attacker could use this flaw to conduct signature forgery attacks.

Find out more about CVE-2015-2730 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (nss) RHSA-2015:1664 2015-08-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (nss-softokn) RHSA-2015:1699 2015-09-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (nss-softokn) RHSA-2015:1699 2015-09-01

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Watson Ladd as the original reporter.

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