CVE-2013-1620
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · CWE-203
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The TLS implementation in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) does not properly consider timing side-channel attacks on a noncompliant MAC check operation during the processing of malformed CBC padding, which allows remote attackers to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets, a related issue to CVE-2013-0169.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00010.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/24Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1135.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1144.htmlAdvisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-19.xmlAdvisory