RSA Key Generation vulnerable to side-channel attack - CVE-2020-12402ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:64058 | Date: (C)2020-07-02 (M)2023-11-19 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: macos |
Mozilla Firefox 78 : 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.
We would like to thank Sohaib ul Hassan for contributing a fix for this issue as well.
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.
Platform: |
Apple Mac OS 14 |
Apple Mac OS 13 |
Apple Mac OS 12 |
Apple Mac OS 11 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.9 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.10 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.11 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.12 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.13 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.14 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.15 |
Product: |
Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla Thunderbird |