CVE-2020-12413 (GCVE-0-2020-12413)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-16 00:00
Modified
2025-03-19 15:23
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Timing Attack on DHE Ciphersuites
Summary
The Raccoon attack is a timing attack on DHE ciphersuites inherit in the TLS specification. To mitigate this vulnerability, Firefox disabled support for DHE ciphersuites.
References
Impacted products
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Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 78
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