CVE-2021-40529

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

07 Nov 2023, 03:38

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References
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/72NB4OLD3VHJC3YF3PEP2HKF6BYURPAO/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-8d51cac49f', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPHGYWNJQKWLTUWBNSFB4F66MQDIL3IB/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPHGYWNJQKWLTUWBNSFB4F66MQDIL3IB/ -
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/72NB4OLD3VHJC3YF3PEP2HKF6BYURPAO/ -

09 Dec 2022, 15:24

Type Values Removed Values Added
References (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 - (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 - Third Party Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Mozilla thunderbird
Mozilla

10 Aug 2022, 20:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 -

03 Dec 2021, 02:48

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/72NB4OLD3VHJC3YF3PEP2HKF6BYURPAO/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/72NB4OLD3VHJC3YF3PEP2HKF6BYURPAO/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPHGYWNJQKWLTUWBNSFB4F66MQDIL3IB/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPHGYWNJQKWLTUWBNSFB4F66MQDIL3IB/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

16 Nov 2021, 18:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/72NB4OLD3VHJC3YF3PEP2HKF6BYURPAO/ -

12 Nov 2021, 03:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPHGYWNJQKWLTUWBNSFB4F66MQDIL3IB/ -

13 Sep 2021, 16:22

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References (MISC) https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2 - (MISC) https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1 - (MISC) https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1 - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923 - (MISC) https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923 - Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2790 - (MISC) https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2790 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE CWE-327
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 2.6
v3 : 5.9

06 Sep 2021, 19:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-09-06 19:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-40529

Mitre link : CVE-2021-40529

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-40529


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Products Affected

mozilla

  • thunderbird

fedoraproject

  • fedora

botan_project

  • botan
CWE
CWE-327

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm