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.
CVSS v3 Base Score
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Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | nspr | 2020-03-16 | ALAS-2020-1355 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | nss | 2020-03-16 | ALAS-2020-1355 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2 - Core | nss | 2019-09-30 | ALAS2-2019-1305 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | nss-softokn | 2020-03-16 | ALAS-2020-1355 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | nss-util | 2020-03-16 | ALAS-2020-1355 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon 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 |