A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.
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"published": "2021-08-05T21:15:12.853Z",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3580",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-3580",
"modified": "2024-11-21T06:21:53.797Z",
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"status": "Modified"
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"imported": "2026-06-06T01:02:08.662Z",
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