In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the application…

Description

In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.6% · top 11% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

• missing length checks for cryptographic primitives
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Mozilla · NSS

  • affected unspecified – < 3.46

References (5)

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.46_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539788 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-379803.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-040-04 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 01:24 UTC.