CVE-2021-40529

EUVD-2021-27704
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
NISTPrimary
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
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 52%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
botan_projectbotan
𝑥
≤ 2.18.1
mozillathunderbird
𝑥
< 91.12.0
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
botan
bookworm
2.19.3+dfsg-1
fixed
bullseye
no-dsa
buster
no-dsa
sid
2.19.5+dfsg-3
fixed
stretch
ignored
trixie
2.19.5+dfsg-3
fixed
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
botan
bionic
needs-triage
focal
needs-triage
hirsute
ignored
impish
ignored
jammy
needs-triage
kinetic
ignored
lunar
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
noble
not-affected
trusty
dne
xenial
ignored
botan1.10
bionic
needs-triage
focal
dne
hirsute
dne
impish
dne
jammy
dne
kinetic
dne
lunar
dne
mantic
dne
noble
dne
trusty
needs-triage
xenial
needs-triage