Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-12404

medium Nessus Plugin ID 222161

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41. (CVE-2018-12404)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 222161

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2018_12404.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12404

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-nss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-nss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-nss, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-pkcs11-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12404

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