Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.4, 3.22.x through 3.28.x before 3.28.4, 3.29.x before 3.29.5, and 3.30.x before 3.30.1…

Description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.4, 3.22.x through 3.28.x before 3.28.4, 3.29.x before 3.29.5, and 3.30.x before 3.30.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect base64 operations.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

• Out-of-bounds write in Base64 encoding in NSS
• CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Mozilla · Thunderbird

  • affected unspecified – < 52.1

• Mozilla · Firefox ESR

  • affected unspecified – < 45.9
  • affected unspecified – < 52.1

• Mozilla · Firefox

  • affected unspecified – < 53

References (21)

• GLSA-201705-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 98050 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1103 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3831 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1100 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1102 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1101 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3872 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 1038320 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.21.4_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.30.1_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.29.5_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.28.4_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5461 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/#CVE-2017-5461 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/#CVE-2017-5461 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344380 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/#CVE-2017-5461 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 15:04 UTC.