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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-3479 json

A vulnerability found in nss.

published 2022-10-14 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-42851

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability found in nss. By this security vulnerability, nss client auth crash without a user certificate in the database and this can lead us to a segmentation fault or crash.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla network_security_services 3.87
  • nss Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:3.87-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3479

  • mozilla-nss SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +17 more 3.79.3-150000.3.90.1
  • mozilla-nss SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, SLE Micro 5.3, openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 +1 more 3.79.3-150400.3.23.1
  • mozilla-nss SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +5 more 3.79.3-58.91.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:0130-1SUSE-SU-2023:0119-1SUSE-SU-2023:0118-1

  • nss Alpine 3.17 3.85-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-3479

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-3479 updated cvss 6.5

nss: nss client auth crash without a user certificate in the database

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 nss, nss-tools, nss-sysinit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 nss, nss-tools, nss-sysinit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 nss, nss-util, nss-tools, nss-softokn, nss-sysinit, nss-softokn-freebl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 nss, nspr, nss-util, nss-tools, nss-softokn, nss-sysinit, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a nss

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.