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A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41.
- Products
- nss
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.41-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12404
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2018-12404
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
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Fixed versions: 3.41-r0
Complete source record
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