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.

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Title ECDSA Public Key Point at Infinity Forgery in Mirage‑Crypto‑EC Library

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Description 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.
Weaknesses CWE-295
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-09T13:02:51.213Z

Reserved: 2026-09-09T04:08:54.293Z

Link: CVE-2026-87733

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-09T13:02:44.741Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-09T05:18:20.430

Modified: 2026-09-09T16:04:24.933

Link: CVE-2026-87733

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-09T12:00:08Z

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