CVE-2016-8635 describes a medium-severity vulnerability in NSS 3.21.x, affecting products from Mozilla and Red Hat. This flaw allows an attacker to recover private keys by exploiting a small subgroup confinement attack during Diffie-Hellman client key exchange. The attack has high complexity but can lead to a complete compromise of confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.21, <= 3.21.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:network_security_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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