CVE-2021-40529
06.09.2021, 19:15
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.Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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botan_project | botan | 𝑥 ≤ 2.18.1 |
mozilla | thunderbird | 𝑥 < 91.12.0 |
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions

Debian Releases

Ubuntu Releases
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botan1.10 |
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Common Weakness Enumeration
References