CVE-2020-25648

medium
Published 2021-09-21 ยท Modified 2021-09-21
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

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.

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.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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almalinux AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed nspr-devel-4.32.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:3.58-1
sid Fixed 2:3.58-1
forky Fixed 2:3.58-1
bullseye Fixed 2:3.58-1
bookworm Fixed 2:3.58-1
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.