A flaw in DRBG number generation within the Network Security Services (NSS) library where the internal state V does not correctly carry bits over. The NSS library has been updated to fix this issue to address this issue and Firefox ESR 52.1 has been updated with NSS version 3.28.4. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-5462

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-cv99-mqp9-mr8m

Published

May 13, 2022 1:46 AM

Last Modified

October 21, 2024 3:32 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 10, 2025 6:31 AM

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