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CVE-2012-4930 Detail

Description

The SPDY protocol 3 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other products, can perform TLS encryption of 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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
http://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
http://www.ekoparty.org/2012/thai-duong.php
http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857737
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-4930
NVD Published Date:
09/15/2012
NVD Last Modified:
01/29/2013
Source:
MITRE