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ghsa-f9qg-252f-g8cg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:13

Modified

2022-08-11 00:00

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, 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.

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cve-2021-40529

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-09-06 18:45

Modified

2024-08-04 02:44

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923	x_refsource_MISC
	https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1	x_refsource_MISC
	https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2790	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPHGYWNJQKWLTUWBNSFB4F66MQDIL3IB/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/72NB4OLD3VHJC3YF3PEP2HKF6BYURPAO/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

Vendor

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Version

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