CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-6829

Published: Oct 28, 2020 | Modified: Feb 20, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.4 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

When performing EC scalar point multiplication, the wNAF point multiplication algorithm was used; which leaked partial information about the nonce used during signature generation. Given an electro-magnetic trace of a few signature generations, the private key could have been computed. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 80.0 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nspr-0:4.25.0-2.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nss-0:3.53.1-3.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nss-softokn-0:3.53.1-6.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat nss-util-0:3.53.1-1.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat nss-0:3.53.1-17.el8_3 *
Red Hat OpenShift Do RedHat openshiftdo/odo-init-image-rhel7:1.1.3-2 *
Firefox Ubuntu bionic *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu focal *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu xenial *
Nss Ubuntu bionic *
Nss Ubuntu devel *
Nss Ubuntu focal *
Nss Ubuntu trusty *
Nss Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Nss Ubuntu upstream *
Nss Ubuntu xenial *

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