CVE-2020-12400

medium
Published 2021-02-16 ยท Modified 2021-02-16
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

When converting coordinates from projective to affine, the modular inversion was not performed in constant time, resulting in a possible timing-based side channel attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:3.55-1
sid Fixed 80.0-1
forky Fixed 2:3.55-1
bullseye Fixed 2:3.55-1
bookworm Fixed 2:3.55-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”
rockylinux Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.