CVE-2016-8635

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8635
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8635.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8635
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-08-01T13:29:00.217Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:29:47.020884Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
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]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8635.json"