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
Product
Action
Vendor
Botan Project
Product
Botan
Botan Project
Botan
Vendor
Fedoraproject
Product
Fedora
Fedoraproject
Fedora
Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Thunderbird
Mozilla
Thunderbird
Exploits
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
