Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting botan package, versions <2.18.1+dfsg-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.53% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-BOTAN-5675901
  • published7 Sept 2021
  • disclosed6 Sept 2021

Introduced: 6 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-40529  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 botan to version 2.18.1+dfsg-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream botan package and not the botan package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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