CVE-2016-8635

MEDIUM

NSS 3.21.x - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 61.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-320 CWE-358
Status published
Products (19)
mozilla/network_security_services 3.21 - 3.21.4
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.3
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.4
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.6
... and 9 more
Published Aug 01, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026