CVE-2020-12413 (GCVE-0-2020-12413)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-19 15:23
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Summary
The Raccoon attack is a timing attack on DHE ciphersuites inherit in the TLS specification. To mitigate this vulnerability, Firefox disabled support for DHE ciphersuites.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Timing Attack on DHE Ciphersuites
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Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 78 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 68.10 (custom)
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