CVE-2023-4421

2023-09-1309:55:13

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nss

vulnerability

noisy error reporting

pkcs#11

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

18.1%

JSON

A vulnerability was found in NSS. The interface between the cryptographic library (the softokn) and the rest of NSS is using PKCS#11, and the error reporting (erroring out when the PKCS#1 v1.5 padding checks fail) that PKCS#11 requires is very noisy, making it easy to detect over the network.