CVE-2012-4929 (GCVE-0-2012-4929)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-09-15 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:50
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string in an HTTP request potentially matches an unknown string in an HTTP header, aka a "CRIME" attack.
References
cve@mitre.org http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
cve@mitre.org http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744
cve@mitre.org http://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
cve@mitre.org http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN65273415/index.html
cve@mitre.org http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000129.html
cve@mitre.org http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
cve@mitre.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101366.html
cve@mitre.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00096.html
cve@mitre.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
cve@mitre.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html
cve@mitre.org http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
cve@mitre.org http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
cve@mitre.org http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829
cve@mitre.org http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0587.html
cve@mitre.org http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor
cve@mitre.org http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
cve@mitre.org http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
cve@mitre.org http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-attack-uses-ssltls-information-leak-hijack-https-sessions-090512
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2579
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2627
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3253
cve@mitre.org http://www.ekoparty.org/2012/thai-duong.php
cve@mitre.org http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55704
cve@mitre.org http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack/
cve@mitre.org http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1627-1
cve@mitre.org http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1628-1
cve@mitre.org http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1898-1
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857051
cve@mitre.org https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10825183
cve@mitre.org https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
cve@mitre.org https://gist.github.com/3696912
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/mpgn/CRIME-poc
cve@mitre.org https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18920
cve@mitre.org https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/demo-crime-tls-attack-091212
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN65273415/index.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000129.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-attack-uses-ssltls-information-leak-hijack-https-sessions-090512
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2579
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2627
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3253
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ekoparty.org/2012/thai-duong.php
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55704
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1627-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1628-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1898-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857051
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10825183
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://gist.github.com/3696912
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/mpgn/CRIME-poc
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18920
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/demo-crime-tls-attack-091212
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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