Information Exposure Affecting nss package, versions <2:3.55-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NSS-1555013
  • published1 Aug 2020
  • disclosed8 Oct 2020

Introduced: 1 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-12400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 nss to version 2:3.55-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

When converting coordinates from projective to affine, the modular inversion was not performed in constant time, resulting in a possible timing-based side channel attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1