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Vulnerability details: VCID-cg71-bce4-n3cm
Vulnerability ID VCID-cg71-bce4-n3cm
Aliases CVE-2021-43527
Summary NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and Evince are believed to be impacted.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-43527.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-43527
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43527
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2024370 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024370
ASA-202112-3 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202112-3
ASA-202112-4 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202112-4
AVG-2596 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2596
AVG-2597 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2597
GLSA-202212-05 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-05
mfsa2021-51 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-51
RHSA-2021:4903 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4903
RHSA-2021:4904 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4904
RHSA-2021:4907 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4907
RHSA-2021:4909 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4909
RHSA-2021:4919 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4919
RHSA-2021:4932 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4932
RHSA-2021:4933 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4933
RHSA-2021:4946 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4946
RHSA-2021:4953 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4953
RHSA-2021:4954 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4954
RHSA-2021:4969 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4969
RHSA-2021:4994 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4994
RHSA-2021:5006 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5006
RHSA-2021:5035 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5035
USN-5168-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5168-1/
USN-5168-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5168-2/
USN-5168-3 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5168-3/
USN-5168-4 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5168-4/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-43527.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.90112
EPSS Score 0.05243
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T08:26:30.202714+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2021/mfsa2021-51.yml 38.6.0