CVE-2018-12404 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00021.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107260 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2237 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-12404 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00029.html https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9