PYSEC-2018-97
See a problem?- Import Source
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/pycrypto/PYSEC-2018-97.yaml
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2018-97
- Aliases
- Published
- 2018-02-03T15:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2023-11-08T04:00:21.756085Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data (i.e., it does not have semantic security in face of a ciphertext-only attack). The Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption does not hold for PyCrypto's ElGamal implementation.
- References
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- https://github.com/TElgamal/attack-on-pycrypto-elgamal
- https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/253
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00018.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3616-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3616-2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-62
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6528-wvf6-f6qg
Affected packages
PyPI / pycrypto
Package
- Name
- pycrypto
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- Purl
- pkg:pypi/pycrypto