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CVE-2020-6829

Published: Oct 28, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	affected `unspecified - < 80`
Mozilla	Firefox for Android	affected `unspecified - < 80`

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-39/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-36/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631583

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