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Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting nss package, versions [3.14,3.68.1) [3.70,3.73)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.76% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-NSS-8310505
  • published 30 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 7 Apr 2023
  • credit Tavis Ormandy
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Introduced: 7 Apr 2023

CVE-2021-43527 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade nss to version 3.68.1, 3.73 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to missing checks when NSS verifies certificates.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical
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SUSE

8.8 high
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Red Hat

9.8 critical