CVE-2023-6135

Published: 20 December 2023

Multiple NSS NIST curves were susceptible to a side-channel attack known as "Minerva". This attack could potentially allow an attacker to recover the private key. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 121.

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	focal	Released (121.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	mantic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	noble	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
mozjs102 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	mantic	Needs triage
	noble	Needs triage
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs38 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	noble	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs52 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	noble	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs68 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	noble	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs78 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	mantic	Does not exist
	noble	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs91 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	noble	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nss Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Released (2:3.98-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	jammy	Released (2:3.98-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needed)
	mantic	Released (2:3.98-0ubuntu0.23.10.1)
	noble	Not vulnerable (2:3.96.1-1)
	trusty	Needs triage
	upstream	Released (3.95)
	xenial	Needs triage
	Patches: upstream: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/88262a8e60126b5168d0b96306ed5fd2de4867bb upstream: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/a69c9f36bb8ac1c47cacb6c6ec9f06309de33951 upstream: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/e68b42b773657000078d104aaccbe26e71a1e0be upstream: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/39f0db972e9d4803f386585bc4d8858ad6f019b8
thunderbird Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	focal	Not vulnerable
	jammy	Not vulnerable
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needed)
	mantic	Not vulnerable
	noble	Not vulnerable
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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