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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40529

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40529 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.900000095367432 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.900000095367432
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11botan2.19.1+dfsg-2, 2.19.5+dfsg-3, 2.19.5+dfsg-4
Debian:12botan0, 0, 0
Debian:13botan0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Sep 6, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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