Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting pycryptodome package, versions [,3.19.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYCRYPTODOME-6219994
  • published1 Feb 2024
  • disclosed1 Feb 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Feb 2024

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pycryptodome to version 3.19.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in the OAEP decryption process, which previously had a side-channel leakage issue. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited through a Manger attack, a type of cryptographic attack.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1