CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8635

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2018-08-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-320, CWE-358

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• mozilla network security services (>= 3.21 <= 3.21.4) • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-358 Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard weakness

References