CVE-2018-12404 Affecting mozilla-nss package, versions <3.40.1-3.7.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.33% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-MOZILLANSS-2759743
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed21 Dec 2018

Introduced: 21 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-12404  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 mozilla-nss to version 3.40.1-3.7.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mozilla-nss package and not the mozilla-nss package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.