CVE-2020-6829

Summary

CVECVE-2020-6829
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-28 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-20 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 80 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Access Denied MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org Permissions Required
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for Android 80 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 3327-1] nss security update MLIST lists.debian.org
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)
  • 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
  • 500953 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 503838 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 940393 AlmaLinux Security Update for nss (ALSA-2021:0538)
  • 960725 Rocky Linux Security Update for nss (RLSA-2021:0538)
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