ubuntu-cve-2018-12404
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-12-12 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:38
Summary
Details

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.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-1d",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-nssdb",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "nss",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2:3.15.1-1ubuntu1",
        "2:3.15.2-1",
        "2:3.15.3-1",
        "2:3.15.3.1-1",
        "2:3.15.3.1-1.1",
        "2:3.15.3.1-1.1ubuntu1",
        "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu3",
        "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu4",
        "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu5",
        "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu6",
        "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7",
        "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1",
        "2:3.17-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
        "2:3.17.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.19.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
        "2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
        "2:3.23-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3",
        "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1",
        "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
        "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-1d",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-nssdb",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "nss",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.4?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2:3.19.2-1ubuntu1",
        "2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu1",
        "2:3.21-1ubuntu2",
        "2:3.21-1ubuntu3",
        "2:3.21-1ubuntu4",
        "2:3.23-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
        "2:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2",
        "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
        "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.2",
        "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3",
            "binary_version": "2:3.35-2ubuntu2.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:3.35-2ubuntu2.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "nss",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.35-2ubuntu2.1?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2:3.35-2ubuntu2.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2:3.32-1ubuntu3",
        "2:3.34-1ubuntu1",
        "2:3.35-2ubuntu2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12404",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:39Z",
  "published": "2018-12-12T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12404"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://cat.eyalro.net/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.36.6_release_notes"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3850-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3850-2"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12404"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-3850-1",
    "USN-3850-2"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2018-12404"
  ]
}



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