CVE-2016-8635CWE-358

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack

Medium · published August 1, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
80.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01989 · 80.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-358 · Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard
Published
2018-08-01T13:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 AUG 13:00Z
    It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack
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