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CVE-2018-12404

Public on 2019-05-02
Modified on 2020-03-18
Description

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
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 nspr 2020-03-16 21:29 ALAS-2020-1355
Amazon Linux 1 nss 2020-03-16 21:29 ALAS-2020-1355
Amazon Linux 2 - Core nss 2019-09-30 22:57 ALAS2-2019-1305
Amazon Linux 1 nss-softokn 2020-03-16 21:29 ALAS-2020-1355
Amazon Linux 1 nss-util 2020-03-16 21:29 ALAS-2020-1355

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N