Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in Mozilla NSS - CVE-2020-12400

 

Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in Mozilla NSS - CVE-2020-12400

Published: August 20, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU45797
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12400
CWE-ID: CWE-327
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists in Mozilla NSS library in the way P-384 and P-521 curves are used in the generation of EDSA signatures, leaking partial information about the ECDSA nonce. Given a small number of ECDSA signatures, this information can be used to steal the private key.


Affected software

Mozilla NSS
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
F5OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
Ansible Automation Platform
nss (Alpine package)
firefox (Alpine package)
libnss3 (Ubuntu package)
nss-util (Red Hat package)
nss (Red Hat package)
nss-softokn (Red Hat package)
nss-util
nss-debuginfo
nss-help
nss-debugsource
nss-devel
nss-softokn
nss-util-devel
nss-softokn-devel
nss
nspr (Red Hat package)
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Traffix SDC
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Firefox for Android
Data Computing Appliance (DCA)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-12400

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla NSS - update to 3.55
Ansible Automation Platform - addressed in versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.4
Firefox for Android - update to 80.1.2
Data Computing Appliance (DCA) - addressed in versions Firmware tool 3H00, 4.2.1.0
libnss3 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.10, 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.13, 2:3.35-2ubuntu2.11, 2:3.49.1-1ubuntu1.4
nss-util (Red Hat package) - update to 3.53.1-1.el7_9
nss (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.53.1-3.el7_9, 3.53.1-17.el8_3
nss-softokn (Red Hat package) - update to 3.53.1-6.el7_9
nss-util - update to 3.54.0-2
nss-debuginfo - update to 3.54.0-2
nss-help - update to 3.54.0-2
nss-debugsource - update to 3.54.0-2
nss-devel - update to 3.54.0-2
nss-softokn - update to 3.54.0-2
nss-util-devel - update to 3.54.0-2
nss-softokn-devel - update to 3.54.0-2
nss - update to 3.54.0-2
nss - addressed in versions 3.55.0-1.fc31, 3.55.0-1.fc32
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.3.40
nspr (Red Hat package) - update to 4.25.0-2.el7_9
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 80.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 80.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 80.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, 80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

External References

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