CVE-2021-40530
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-06 18:44
Modified
2024-08-04 02:44
Severity ?
Summary
The ElGamal implementation in Crypto++ through 8.5 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/57OJA2K5AHX5HAU2QBDRWLGIIUX7GASC/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HGVBZ2TTRKCTYAZTRHTF6OBD4W37F5MT/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJYOZGWI7TD27SEXILSM6VUTPPEICDL7/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/57OJA2K5AHX5HAU2QBDRWLGIIUX7GASC/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HGVBZ2TTRKCTYAZTRHTF6OBD4W37F5MT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJYOZGWI7TD27SEXILSM6VUTPPEICDL7/
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