Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,80.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379175
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Oct 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Oct 2020

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

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