Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-150
MD5 signatures accepted within TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange in server signature
- Announced
- December 22, 2015
- Reporter
- Karthikeyan Bhargavan
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 43.0.2
- Firefox ESR 38.6
- Thunderbird 38.6
Description
Security researcher Karthikeyan Bhargavan reported an issue in Network Security Services (NSS) where MD5 signatures in the server signature within the TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange message are still accepted. This is an issue since NSS has officially disallowed the accepting MD5 as a hash algorithm in signatures since 2011. This issues exposes NSS based clients such as Firefox to theoretical collision-based forgery attacks. This issue was fixed in NSS version 3.20.2.