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CVE-2021-43527

NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.73, 3.68.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS. Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox. However, email clients and PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • Mozilla NSS

    fixed in 3.73; fixed in 3.68.1

References 9

mozilla.org

bugzilla.mozilla.org

ftp.mozilla.org

oracle.com

security.netapp.com

cert-portal.siemens.com

starwindsoftware.com

security.gentoo.org