Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting nss-sysinit package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (27th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-NSSSYSINIT-2017662
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 21 May 2020
Introduced: 21 May 2020
CVE-2020-12399 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6
nss-sysinit
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss-sysinit
package and not the nss-sysinit
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:6
relevant fixed versions and status.
NSS has shown timing differences when performing DSA signatures, which was exploitable and could eventually leak private keys. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0, Firefox < 77, and Firefox ESR < 68.9.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12399
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4726
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-49
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631576
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-20/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-21/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-22/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00029.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3280
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4421-1/