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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2020-07-09T14:53:22

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:56:51.801Z

Reserved: 2020-04-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-12402

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-09T15:15:10.820

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:59:38.863

Link: CVE-2020-12402

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-06-02T12:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-12402 - Bugzilla