CVE-2023-5388 (GCVE-0-2023-5388)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-19 12:02
Modified
2025-11-04 18:21
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CWE
- NSS susceptible to timing attack against RSA decryption
Summary
NSS was susceptible to a timing side-channel attack when performing RSA decryption. This attack could potentially allow an attacker to recover the private data. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124, Firefox ESR < 115.9, and Thunderbird < 115.9.
References
Impacted products
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| ► | Mozilla | Firefox |
Version: unspecified < 124 |
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