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CVE-2021-40529

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.9 Published: 2021-09-06 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Botan Project BotanFedoraproject FedoraMozilla Thunderbird

Weakness Type

CWE-327

References