CVE-2021-40529
The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between…
published September 6, 2021
What it is
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.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS
- Not scored
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.01532 · 74.6th percentile
- Published
- 2021-09-06T18:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
06 SEP 18:45Z
The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between…
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