Mozilla Firefox < 43.0.2 RSA-MD5 Collision-based Forgery Weakness (SLOTH)

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 9076

Synopsis

The remote host has a web browser installed that may accept MD5 signatures within TLS 1.2.

Description

The version of Firefox is prior to 43.0.2 and is affected by a collision-based forgery vulnerability, known as SLOTH (Security Losses from Obsolete and Truncated Transcript Hashes), in the TLS protocol due to accepting RSA-MD5 signatures in the server signature within the TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange messages during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker can exploit this, via a transcript collision attack, to impersonate a TLS server. (CVE-2015-7575)

Solution

Upgrade to Firefox 43.0.2 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 9076

Family: Web Clients

Published: 2/19/2016

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 88591

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7575

BID: 79684

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