Key Management Errors Affecting nss package, versions [3.21,3.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NSS-2384919
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Aug 2018

CVE-2016-8635  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-320  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nss to version 3.22 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Key Management Errors. It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1