Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting mozilla package, versions [,80.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377800
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Oct 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Oct 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 80.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. 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

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