GMS-2017-117: Invalid Curve Attack

March 13, 2017

node-jose is vulnerable to an invalid curve attack. This allows an attacker to recover the private secret key when JWE with Key Agreement with Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Static (ECDH-ES) is used.

References

blog.intothesymmetry.com/2017/03/critical-vulnerability-in-json-web.html
github.com/cisco/node-jose

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