CVE-2016-8635 in Mozilla and Red Hat Products
Published on August 1, 2018
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.
Weakness Type
Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard
The software does not implement or incorrectly implements one or more security-relevant checks as specified by the design of a standardized algorithm, protocol, or technique.
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Affected Versions
Mozilla nss Version 3.21.x is affected by CVE-2016-8635Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.37%
Percentile
58.16%
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