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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
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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History
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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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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-09-06T19:15:07.630
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:24:20.040
Link: CVE-2021-40529
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD