CVE-2020-12403

Publication date 18 August 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.1 · Critical

Score breakdown

A 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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nss 20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:3.49.1-1ubuntu1.5
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2:3.35-2ubuntu2.12
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.14
14.04 LTS trusty

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
nss

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.1 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H