The ElGamal implementation in Crypto++ through 8.5 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.
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Published : 2021-09-06 19:15
Updated : 2023-11-07 03:38
NVD link : CVE-2021-40530
Mitre link : CVE-2021-40530
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-40530
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Products Affected
cryptopp
- crypto\+\+
fedoraproject
- fedora
CWE
CWE-327
Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm