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CVE-2023-5388
NSS was susceptible to a timing side-channel attack when performing RSA decryption. This attack could potentially allow an attacker to…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.97%
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- mozilla
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.97% · top 38% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- NSS susceptible to timing attack against RSA decryption
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
- CWE-203 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-203 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 124
- affected unspecified – < 115.9
- affected unspecified – < 115.9
References (7)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780432 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-12/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-13/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-14/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00022.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00028.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00010.html (opens in a new tab)
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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