Vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services
CVE-2013-1620
The TLS implementation in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) does not properly consider timing side-channel attacks on a noncompliant MAC check operation during the processing of malformed CBC padding, which allows remote attackers to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets, a related issue to CVE-2013-0169.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.037 (89.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Network Security Services
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center — versions 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
- Oracle Glassfish Communications Server — versions 2.0
- Oracle Glassfish Server — versions 2.1.1
- Oracle Iplanet Web Proxy Server — versions 4.0
- Oracle Iplanet Web Server — versions 6.1, 7.0
- Oracle Opensso — versions 3.0-03
- Oracle Traffic Director — versions 11.1.1.6.0, 11.1.1.7.0
- Oracle Vm Server — versions 3.2
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 11.10, 12.04
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/57777 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/TLStiming.pdf (Technical Description, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00009.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/24 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1763-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-19.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-1620?
- CVE-2013-1620 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services, classified under Observable Discrepancy. Published 2013-02-08.
- Is CVE-2013-1620 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.