CVE-2020-12413

Published: Feb 16, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

5.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitability: 2.2 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (2)

Products: Mozilla: Firefox, Firefox Esr

Mozilla

2 products

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox	Before 78.0
Mozilla Firefox Esr	Before 68.10.0

Related CWEs

CWE-203

Observable Discrepancy

The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

References (4)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-12413

Source: security@mozilla.org

Issue Tracking

https://raccoon-attack.com/

Source: security@mozilla.org

Technical Description

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-12413

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Issue Tracking

https://raccoon-attack.com/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Technical Description

Timeline

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