CVE-2012-4929
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 15, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 15, 2012
Description
The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string in an HTTP request potentially matches an unknown string in an HTTP header, aka a "CRIME" attack.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- SSRT101139vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:0587vendor-advisory
- DSA-2579vendor-advisory
- https://gist.github.com/3696912
- http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
- FEDORA-2013-4403vendor-advisory
- USN-1898-1vendor-advisory
- https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10825183
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1420vendor-advisory
- http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
- DSA-3253vendor-advisory
- http://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0157vendor-advisory
- https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
- https://github.com/mpgn/CRIME-poc
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack/
- APPLE-SA-2013-06-04-1vendor-advisory
- JVNDB-2016-000129third-party-advisory
- USN-1627-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-2627vendor-advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18920vdb-entrysignature
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
- 55704vdb-entry
- USN-1628-1vendor-advisory
- https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/demo-crime-tls-attack-091212
- http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-attack-uses-ssltls-information-leak-hijack-https-sessions-090512
- http://www.ekoparty.org/2012/thai-duong.php
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0143vendor-advisory
- http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor
- JVN#65273415third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857051
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