Vulnerability in Mozilla Nss

CVE-2016-8635

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of th…

EPSS: 0.004 (62.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8635?
CVE-2016-8635 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Nss, classified under CWE-358. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-08-01.
How severe is CVE-2016-8635?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-8635 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.