Vulnerability CVE-2021-40528


Published: 2021-09-06

Description:
The ElGamal implementation in Libgcrypt before 1.9.4 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.

Type:

CWE-327

(Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnupg -> Libgcrypt 

 References:
https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1
https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923

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