CVE-2016-8635

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-08-01

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-320, CWE-358

Affected products

• Network Security Services (Mozilla)
• Nss (Mozilla)
• Enterprise Linux Desktop (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux Server (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux Server Aus (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux Server Eus (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux Server Tus (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux Workstation (Redhat)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2779.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94346
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8635
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-46