Tag: CurveBall

An In-Depth Technical Analysis of CurveBall (CVE-2020-0601)

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The first Microsoft patch Tuesday of 2020 contained fixes for CVE-2020-0601, a vulnerability discovered by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) that affects how cryptographic certificates are verified by one of the core cryptography libraries in Windows that make up part of Read More …

Blocking A CurveBall: PoCs Out for Critical Microsoft-NSA Bug CVE-2020-0601

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Security researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) codes for exploiting CurveBall (CVE-2020-0601), the first bug that the National Security Agency (NSA) reported. Included in this year’s first cycle of Patch Tuesday updates, the vulnerability affects Windows operating systems’ CryptoAPI’s validation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Read More …