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CVE-2021-37606

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2021-07-30 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Meow hash 0.5/calico does not sufficiently thwart key recovery by an attacker who can query whether there's a collision in the bottom bits of the hashes of two messages, as demonstrated by an attack against a long-running web service that allows the attacker to infer collisions by measuring timing differences.

Affected Platforms

Meow Hash Project Meow Hash

Weakness Type

CWE-203, CWE-326

References