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

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
74.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
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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