SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2019-17006

CVE-2019-17006 — In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3

In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow.

CVSS
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EPSS
3.04% (top 13.50%)
CWE
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Published
2020-10-22T20:24:25.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T01:24:48.804Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
MozillaNSSunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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