CVE-2020-25648

high

Description

A flaw was found in the way NSS handled CCS (ChangeCipherSpec) messages in TLS 1.3. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send multiple CCS messages, causing a denial of service for servers compiled with the NSS library. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects NSS versions before 3.58.

References

Advisories
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RPOLN6DJUYQ3QBQEGLZGV73SNIPK7GHV/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRM53IQCPZT2US3M7JXTP6I6IBA5RGOD/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ERA5SVJQXQMDGES7RIT4F4NQVLD35RXN/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1887319

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00039.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-18313

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.58_release_notes

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-10-20

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03901