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CVE-2016-1950

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
13/03/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.3 and 3.20.x and 3.21.x before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted ASN.1 data in an X.509 certificate.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
8.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:network_security_services:3.19.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:network_security_services:3.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:network_security_services:3.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:network_security_services:3.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 44.0.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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