cvelistv5 - CVE-2016-6298

CVE-2016-6298

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-09-01 23:00

Modified

2024-08-06 01:22

Severity ?

Summary

The _Rsa15 class in the RSA 1.5 algorithm implementation in jwa.py in jwcrypto before 0.3.2 lacks the Random Filling protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a Million Message Attack (MMA).

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92729	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com	https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/commit/eb5be5bd94c8cae1d7f3ba9801377084d8e5a7ba	Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/issues/65	Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/pull/66	Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.com	https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/releases/tag/v0.3.2	Patch, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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CVE-2016-6298

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Vulnerability from github

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