CVE-2016-9074 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information ExposureCWE-385 — Covert Timing Channel9 documents7 sources
Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
1.2%
top 20.89%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+4 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An existing mitigation of timing side-channel attacks is insufficient in some circumstances. This issue is addressed in Network Security Services (NSS) 3.26.1. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 50
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 45.5.0+1
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox-esr 45.5.0esr-1 (bookworm)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 45.5
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 45.5

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-wwm5-654g-jj42: An existing mitigation of timing side-channel attacks is insufficient in some circumstances↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-9074: An existing mitigation of timing side-channel attacks is insufficient in some circumstances↗2018-06-11
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OSV
nss vulnerabilities↗2017-01-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
NSS vulnerabilities↗2017-01-04
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Red Hat
nss: Insufficient timing side-channel resistance in divSpoiler↗2016-11-15
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Debian
CVE-2016-9074: firefox-esr - An existing mitigation of timing side-channel attacks is insufficient in some ci...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9074 nss: Insufficient timing side-channel resistance in divSpoiler [fedora-all]↗2016-11-18
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9074 nss: Insufficient timing side-channel resistance in divSpoiler↗2016-11-18
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