CVSS 3.1
4.4 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2020-12402
Medium (4.4). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
During RSA key generation, bignum implementations used a variation of the Binary Extended Euclidean Algorithm which entailed significantly input-dependent flow. This allowed an attacker able to perform electromagnetic-based side channel attacks to record traces leading to the recovery of the secret primes. *Note:* An unmodified Firefox browser does not generate RSA keys in normal operation and is not affected, but products built on top of it might. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 78.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-203
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- mozilla:firefox
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00049.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631597