Bug 1791225 (CVE-2019-17023) - CVE-2019-17023 nss: TLS 1.3 HelloRetryRequest downgrade request sets client into invalid state
Summary: CVE-2019-17023 nss: TLS 1.3 HelloRetryRequest downgrade request sets client i...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-17023
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1791228 1791229
Blocks: 1790871
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Reported: 2020-01-15 09:25 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-16 20:45 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nss 3.49
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Last Closed: 2020-08-03 13:27:50 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3280 0 None None None 2020-08-03 13:01:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4076 0 None None None 2020-09-29 20:58:22 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-15 09:25:50 UTC 
As per upstream:

After a HelloRetryRequest has been sent, the client may negotiate a lower protocol that TLS 1.3, resulting in an invalid state transition in the TLS State Machine. If the client gets into this state, incoming Application Data records will be ignored.

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-17023 (currently private)
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-15 09:25:54 UTC 
External References:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.49_release_notes
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-21 10:12:14 UTC 
Statement:

This flaw causes the client to hang when there is a downgrade attempt. Therefore no actual protocol downgrade occurs.
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-08-03 13:01:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:3280 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3280
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-08-03 13:27:50 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-17023
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:58:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:4076 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4076
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