CVE-2016-8635
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-08-01 13:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Summary
It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group.
Impacted products
Mozillanss
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