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6.2 MEDIUM

CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): None (N)
Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
Confidentiality (C): None (N)
Integrity (I): High (H)
Availability (A): None (N)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
Modified Availability (MA): None (N)

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Created suggestion 22 hours ago

An issue was discovered in the mirage-crypto-ec function before 2.2.0 …

An issue was discovered in the mirage-crypto-ec function before 2.2.0 for OCaml. The ECDSA functions {P256,P384,P521}.Dsa.pub_of_octets accept 0x00, the encoding of the point at infinity, as a public key. With that public key, signatures can be forged without a private key.