CVE-2018-6594

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    CVE-2018-6594

    Published: 3 Feb 2018Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data (i.e., it does not have semantic security in face of a ciphertext-only attack). The Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption does not hold for PyCrypto's ElGamal implementation.

    References: https://github.com/TElgamal/attack-on-pycrypto-elgamal, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00018.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-62, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3616-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3616-2/, https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/253

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v2.6.1
    v2.6

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