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.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
5.9 MEDIUM
NETWORK
HIGH
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
mitreCNA
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CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 29%
VendorProductVersion
botan_projectbotan
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≤ 2.18.1
mozillathunderbird
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< 91.12.0
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= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
botan
bullseye
no-dsa
buster
no-dsa
stretch
ignored
bookworm
2.19.3+dfsg-1
fixed
sid
2.19.5+dfsg-3
fixed
trixie
2.19.5+dfsg-3
fixed
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
botan
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
lunar
not-affected
kinetic
ignored
jammy
needs-triage
impish
ignored
hirsute
ignored
focal
needs-triage
bionic
needs-triage
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
botan1.10
noble
dne
mantic
dne
lunar
dne
kinetic
dne
jammy
dne
impish
dne
hirsute
dne
focal
dne
bionic
needs-triage
xenial
needs-triage
trusty
needs-triage