CVE-2017-5462

medium

Description

A flaw in DRBG number generation within the Network Security Services (NSS) library where the internal state V does not correctly carry bits over. The NSS library has been updated to fix this issue to address this issue and Firefox ESR 52.1 has been updated with NSS version 3.28.4. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345089

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-04

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3831

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3872

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2019-10-03

Type: CWE-682

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Impact Score: 1.4

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM