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CVE-2016-9574

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-325

Description

nss before version 3.30 is vulnerable to a remote denial of service during the session handshake when using SessionTicket extension and ECDHE-ECDSA.

Affected products

• Mozilla Network Security Services: before 3.30 — fixed in 3.30

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Network Security Services 3.30. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320695
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9574
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320695
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9574

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