Description
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.
Published: 2021-09-06
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-27704 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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Botan Project Botan
Fedoraproject Fedora
Mozilla Thunderbird
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T02:44:10.857Z

Reserved: 2021-09-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-40529

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-06T19:15:07.630

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:24:20.040

Link: CVE-2021-40529

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