"CurveBall" is a spoofing vulnerability in the way the certificates are accepted without proper verification of the explicit curve parameters within the certificates. Essentially, this flaw allows an attacker to supply his own generated X.509 certificates by using an "explicit parameters" option to set those curve parameters.

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