Vulnerability CVE-2018-6829


Published: 2018-02-07   Modified: 2018-02-08

Description:
cipher/elgamal.c in Libgcrypt through 1.8.2, when used to encrypt messages directly, improperly encodes plaintexts, 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 Libgcrypt's ElGamal implementation.

Type:

CWE-327

(Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnupg -> Libgcrypt 

 References:
https://github.com/weikengchen/attack-on-libgcrypt-elgamal
https://github.com/weikengchen/attack-on-libgcrypt-elgamal/wiki
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2018-February/004394.html

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