CVE detail

CVE-2020-12402 — CVE-2020-12402

Published 2020-07-09 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor mozilla · Product firefox · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
4.4
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0034
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
26.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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