The ElGamal implementation in Crypto++ through 8.5 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.
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References | () https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923 - Technical Description, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1 - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/57OJA2K5AHX5HAU2QBDRWLGIIUX7GASC/ - | |
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Information
Published : 2021-09-06 19:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 06:24
NVD link : CVE-2021-40530
Mitre link : CVE-2021-40530
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-40530
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Products Affected
cryptopp
- crypto\+\+
fedoraproject
- fedora
CWE
CWE-327
Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm