Insecure Encryption Affecting dlitz/pycrypto package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.03% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DLITZPYCRYPTO-2366741
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6594  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for dlitz/pycrypto.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Encryption lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data (i.e., it does not have semantic security in face of a ciphertext-only attack). The Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption does not hold for PyCrypto's ElGamal implementation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1