The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4076 advisory.

  - When importing a curve25519 private key in PKCS#8format with leading 0x00 bytes, it is possible to trigger     an out-of-bounds read in the Network Security Services (NSS) library. This could lead to information     disclosure. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.8, Firefox < 68, and Thunderbird < 60.8.
    (CVE-2019-11719)

  - A vulnerability exists where it possible to force Network Security Services (NSS) to sign     CertificateVerify with PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures when those are the only ones advertised by server in     CertificateRequest in TLS 1.3. PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures should not be used for TLS 1.3 messages. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 68. (CVE-2019-11727)

  - Improper refcounting of soft token session objects could cause a use-after-free and crash (likely limited     to a denial of service). This vulnerability affects Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-11756)

  - 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. (CVE-2019-17006)

  - After a HelloRetryRequest has been sent, the client may negotiate a lower protocol that TLS 1.3, resulting     in an invalid state transition in the TLS State Machine. If the client gets into this state, incoming     Application Data records will be ignored. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 72. (CVE-2019-17023)

  - When converting coordinates from projective to affine, the modular inversion was not performed in constant     time, resulting in a possible timing-based side channel attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80     and Firefox for Android < 80. (CVE-2020-12400)

  - During ECDSA signature generation, padding applied in the nonce designed to ensure constant-time scalar     multiplication was removed, resulting in variable-time execution dependent on secret data. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80. (CVE-2020-12401)

  - During RSA key generation, bignum implementations used a variation of the Binary Extended Euclidean     Algorithm which entailed significantly input-dependent flow. This allowed an attacker able to perform     electromagnetic-based side channel attacks to record traces leading to the recovery of the secret primes.
    *Note:* An unmodified Firefox browser does not generate RSA keys in normal operation and is not affected,     but products built on top of it might. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 78. (CVE-2020-12402)

  - A flaw was found in the way CHACHA20-POLY1305 was implemented in NSS in versions before 3.55. When using     multi-part Chacha20, it could cause out-of-bounds reads. This issue was fixed by explicitly disabling     multi-part ChaCha20 (which was not functioning correctly) and strictly enforcing tag length. The highest     threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and system availability. (CVE-2020-12403)

  - When performing EC scalar point multiplication, the wNAF point multiplication algorithm was used; which     leaked partial information about the nonce used during signature generation. Given an electro-magnetic     trace of a few signature generations, the private key could have been computed. This vulnerability affects     Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80. (CVE-2020-6829)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

CentOS 7 : nss and nspr (RHSA-2020:4076)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 142600

Version 1.6