CVE-2018-6594 (GCVE-0-2018-6594)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-03 03:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:10
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Summary
lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, 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 PyCrypto's ElGamal implementation.
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CWE
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Assigner
References
https://github.com/TElgamal/attack-on-pycrypto-elgamal x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3616-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/253 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3616-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-62 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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