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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-08-01T13:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.258Z

Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8635

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-01T13:29:00.217

Modified: 2023-02-12T23:26:16.217

Link: CVE-2016-8635

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-8635 - Bugzilla