cve/2018/CVE-2018-12404.md

### [CVE-2018-12404](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12404)
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### Description

A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-12404
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon