VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-12404
A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content.
MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 44.4%
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 44.4%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 44.40% probability · 99th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mozilla/network security services
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00021.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107260Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2237
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-12404Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-379803.pdf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00029.html
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-040-04
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00021.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107260Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2237
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-12404Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-379803.pdf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00029.html
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-040-04
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.