CVE-2018-12404

MEDIUM

Network Security Services < 3.41 - RSA Handshake Side Channel Attack

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107260
Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-12404
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2237
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-040-04
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00029.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.1278
EPSS Percentile 94.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/network_security_services < 3.41
Published May 02, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026