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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-43527

NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 17.6%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 17.6%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
17.56% probability · 97th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
mozilla/nss · mozilla/nss esr · netapp/cloud backup · netapp/e-series santricity os controller · oracle/communications cloud native core binding support function · oracle/communications cloud native core network repository function · oracle/communications cloud native core network slice selection function · oracle/communications policy management · starwindsoftware/starwind san \& nas · starwindsoftware/starwind virtual san
Source
security@mozilla.org

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