CVE-2012-4929

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-4929
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-09-15 18:55:00 UTC
Updated2018-04-22 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string in an HTTP request potentially matches an unknown string in an HTTP header, aka a "CRIME" attack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-310

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
JVN#65273415: Android OS issue where it is affected by the CRIME attack JVN jvn.jp
'[security bulletin] HPSBUX02866 SSRT101139 rev.1 - HP-UX Running Apache, Remote Denial of Service (D' - MARC HP marc.info
GitHub - mpgn/CRIME-poc: CRIME attack PoC : a compression oracle attacks CVE-2012-4929 MISC github.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3253-1 pound DEBIAN www.debian.org
Bug 857051 – CVE-2012-4929 SSL/TLS CRIME attack against HTTPS CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Issue 10825183: net: disable TLS compression with OpenSSL. - Code Review CONFIRM chromiumcodereview.appspot.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
The perfect CRIME? New HTTPS web hijack attack explained • The Register MISC www.theregister.co.uk
ssl - CRIME - How to beat the BEAST successor? - IT Security MISC security.stackexchange.com
New Attack Uses SSL/TLS Information Leak to Hijack HTTPS Sessions | threatpost MISC threatpost.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: mingw-openssl-1.0.1e-1.fc18 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
TLS Protocol CVE-2012-4929 Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2627-1 nginx DEBIAN www.debian.org
USN-1628-1: Qt vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
It's not a crime to build a CRIME MISC gist.github.com
Compression and Information Leakage of Plaintext MISC www.iacr.org
JVNDB-2016-000129 - JVN iPedia JVNDB jvndb.jvn.jp
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:0157-1: moderate: libqt4: security fixes for XMLHttpReq SUSE lists.opensuse.org
ekoparty Security Conference MISC www.ekoparty.org
Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL exploit coming? | Hacker News MISC news.ycombinator.com
openSUSE-SU-2013:0143-1: moderate: libqt4: security fixes for XMLHttpReq SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Details on the “CRIME” attack - Blog - iSEC Partners MISC isecpartners.com
APPLE-SA-2013-06-04-1 OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and Security Update 2013-002 APPLE lists.apple.com
139744 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail CONFIRM code.google.com
Demo of the CRIME TLS Attack | threatpost MISC threatpost.com
CRIME: Information Leakage Attack against SSL/TLS | Qualys Security Labs | Qualys Community MISC community.qualys.com
USN-1898-1: OpenSSL vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2579-1 apache2 DEBIAN www.debian.org
Crack in Internet’s foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking | Ars Technica MISC arstechnica.com
About the security content of OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and Security Update 2013-002 CONFIRM support.apple.com
openSUSE-SU-2012:1420-1: moderate: update for libqt4 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CRIME Attack Uses Compression Ratio of TLS Requests as Side Channel to Hijack Secure Sessions | threatpost MISC threatpost.com
USN-1627-1: Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 390226 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for Open Secure Sockets Layer (OpenSSL) (OVMSA-2021-0011)
  • 390284 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for Open Secure Sockets Layer (OpenSSL) (OVMSA-2023-0013)
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