Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting nss package, versions <3.55-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-NSS-8485033
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed8 Oct 2020

Introduced: 8 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-12401  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 nss to version 3.55-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss package and not the nss package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

During ECDSA signature generation, padding applied in the nonce designed to ensure constant-time scalar multiplication was removed, resulting in variable-time execution dependent on secret data. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1