Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
5.2%
top 10.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 8
Latest updateJan 15

Description

NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However,

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages12 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified91.3.0
CVEListV5mozilla/nssunspecified3.73+1
NVDmozilla/nss< 3.73
NVDmozilla/nss_esr< 3.68.1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-7hfm-39v6-v3p5: NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 32021-12-09
OSV
CVE-2021-43527: NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 32021-12-08
CVEList
CVE-2021-43527: NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 32021-12-08
Project0
This shouldn&#39;t have happened: A vulnerability postmortem - Project Zero2021-12-01

📋Vendor Advisories

14
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Systems Risk Matrix: XCP Firmware (NSS) — CVE-2021-435272024-01-15
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Security (NSS) — CVE-2021-435272022-10-15
Chrome
Long Term Support Channel Update for ChromeOS: CVE-2022-18592022-05-31
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Communications Risk Matrix: BSF (NSS) — CVE-2021-435272022-04-15
Microsoft
NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatur2021-12-14
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