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CVE-2020-6829

Mozilla / Firefox PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

When performing EC scalar point multiplication, the wNAF point multiplication algorithm was used; which leaked partial information about the nonce used during signature generation. Given an electro-magnetic trace of a few signature generations, the private key could have been computed. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Mozilla / Firefoxaffected unspecified before 80
Mozilla / Firefox for Androidaffected unspecified before 80

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.