CVE-2018-12404

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41.

A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 5 years ago

2019-05-02 17:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-07-20 12:15:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Network Security Services

References

openSUSE-SU-2019:1758

107260

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

RHSA-2019:2237

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-12404

Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

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