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Insecure Randomness Affecting pycrypto package, versions [,2.6)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.43% (75th percentile)
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NVD
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
4.8 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYCRYPTO-40095
  • published 1 Aug 2017
  • disclosed 19 Apr 2012
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 19 Apr 2012

CVE-2012-2417 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-310 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

pycrypto is a Cryptographic module for Python.

PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key.

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