CVE-2021-40529

Publication date

2021-09-06 18:45:08

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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 receivers public key, the generator defined by the receivers public key, and the senders ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.