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Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-4339. NOTE: on 20061107, Mozilla released an advisory stating that these versions were not completely patched by MFSA2006-60. The newer fixes for 1.5.0.7 are covered by CVE-2006-5462.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 15, 2006
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 3, 2022
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

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(89th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2006-4340

GHSA ID

GHSA-q7vf-rjwh-chxv

Source code

No known source code

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