CVE-2021-40529 — Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in Mozilla Thunderbird
Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 46.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 6
Latest updateMay 24
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Fedora 34, 35
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2021-40529: botan - The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and o...↗2021