Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2015-8803
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.21%
Original Filing — NVD Description
The ecc_256_modp function in ecc-256.c in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-256 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8805.