Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-5462
Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, 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. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (85.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.028 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2
- Mozilla Network Security Services — versions 3.11.3
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23883 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23235 (third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-08.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23013 (third-party-advisory)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-246.htm
- secunia.com/advisories/22770 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4387 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1225 (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)