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    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 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:Sep 6, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Sep 6, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.00281
    CVSS Score:5.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Botan Project
    Product
    Botan
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Thunderbird

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High