PT-2023-7972 · Mozilla+9 · Firefox+9

George Pantela

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Published

2023-12-19

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Updated

2025-03-21

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CVE-2023-6135

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 121
Description The issue is related to a side-channel attack known as "Minerva" that affects multiple NSS NIST curves, potentially allowing an attacker to recover the private key. This could lead to the disclosure of confidential information. The attack can be exploited by a remote attacker.
Recommendations For versions prior to 121, update to version 121 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to sensitive information until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Side Channel Attack

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2024:0786
ALSA-2024:0790
ALT-PU-2023-8231
ALT-PU-2024-13898
ALT-PU-2024-15839
ALT-PU-2024-15840
BDU:2023-09056
CESA-2024_0786
CVE-2023-6135
ECHO-BE87-B95E-603F
OESA-2025-1322
OESA-2025-1323
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13531-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2024:0785
RHSA-2024:0786
RHSA-2024:0790
RHSA-2024:0791
RHSA-2024_0786
RHSA-2024_0790
RLSA-2024:0786
USN-6562-1
USN-6562-2
USN-6727-1
USN-6727-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Almalinux
Astra Linux
Centos
Debian
Linuxmint
Firefox
Red Hat
Rocky Linux
Ubuntu