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UK Cyber Defence
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%

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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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.