CVE-2020-12399 (GCVE-0-2020-12399)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-09 14:52
Modified
2024-08-04 11:56
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CWE
- Timing attack on DSA signatures in NSS library
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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| ► | Mozilla | Thunderbird |
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