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.
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Published : 2020-07-09 08:15
Updated : 2022-01-04 08:38
NVD link : CVE-2020-12402
Mitre link : CVE-2020-12402
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CWE
CWE-203
Observable Discrepancy
Products Affected
mozilla
- firefox
debian
- debian_linux
fedoraproject
- fedora
opensuse
- leap