Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting nss package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-NSS-1405257
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 May 2020

Introduced: 21 May 2020

CVE-2020-12399  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 nss.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss package and not the nss package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

NSS has shown timing differences when performing DSA signatures, which was exploitable and could eventually leak private keys. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0, Firefox < 77, and Firefox ESR < 68.9.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1