CVE-2014-1491
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · CWE-326
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms in ticket handling by leveraging use of a certain value.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/12c42006aed8 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/12c42006aed8Patch
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127966.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/129218.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.htmlAdvisory