CVE-2018-12404 (GCVE-0-2018-12404)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-05-02 16:40 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CWE
- Cryptographic Issues
Assigner
References
8 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107260 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2237 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advis… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/s… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-040-04 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Network Security Services (NSS) |
Affected:
All versions prior to NSS 3.41
|
guessed |
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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