CVE-2020-12403

Summary

CVECVE-2020-12403
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-27 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-24 16:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the way CHACHA20-POLY1305 was implemented in NSS in versions before 3.55. When using multi-part Chacha20, it could cause out-of-bounds reads. This issue was fixed by explicitly disabling multi-part ChaCha20 (which was not functioning correctly) and strictly enforcing tag length. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Nss All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
NSS 3.55 release notes - Mozilla | MDN MISC developer.mozilla.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3327-1] nss security update MLIST lists.debian.org
1868931 – (CVE-2020-12403) CVE-2020-12403 nss: CHACHA20-POLY1305 decryption with undersized tag leads to out-of-bounds read MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE-2020-12403 Libnss Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181594 Debian Security Update for nss (DLA 3327-1)
  • 239173 Red Hat Update for nss and nss-softokn (RHSA-2021:0876)
  • 239184 Red Hat Update for nss-softokn (RHSA-2021:1026)
  • 352469 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for nspr, nss-softokn, nss-util: ALAS-2021-1522
  • 377391 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for nss (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0015)
  • 377524 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for nss and nspr (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0173)
  • 500458 Alpine Linux Security Update for nss
  • 900037 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for nss 3.44
  • 901861 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for nss (6746-1)
  • 903133 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for nss (4326)
  • 904928 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for openjdk8 (12402)
  • 904973 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for mozjs60 (12364)
  • 940393 AlmaLinux Security Update for nss (ALSA-2021:0538)
  • 960725 Rocky Linux Security Update for nss (RLSA-2021:0538)
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