CVE-2018-12404

Public on 2019-05-02
Modified on 2020-03-18
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.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
HAQM Linux 1 nspr 2020-03-16 ALAS-2020-1355 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 nss 2020-03-16 ALAS-2020-1355 Fixed
HAQM Linux 2 - Core nss 2019-09-30 ALAS2-2019-1305 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 nss-softokn 2020-03-16 ALAS-2020-1355 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 nss-util 2020-03-16 ALAS-2020-1355 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
HAQM Linux CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N