{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "text": "medium" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "The ElGamal implementation in Libgcrypt before 1.9.4 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.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Alien-GCrypt-2021-40528-libgcrypt JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2021/cpansa-alien-gcrypt-2021-40528-libgcrypt.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1", "url": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2", "url": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923", "url": "https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=3462280f2e23e16adf3ed5176e0f2413d8861320", "url": "https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=3462280f2e23e16adf3ed5176e0f2413d8861320" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2021-40528 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40528" } ], "title": "Alien-GCrypt vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2021-09-06T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.25" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Alien-GCrypt-2021-40528-libgcrypt", "initial_release_date": "2021-09-06T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2021-09-06T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/==1.6.5.0", "product": { "name": "Alien-GCrypt equal =1.6.5.0", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001" } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Alien-GCrypt" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2021-40528", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-327", "name": "Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "The ElGamal implementation in Libgcrypt before 1.9.4 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.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v2": { "baseScore": 2.6, "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N", "version": "2.0" }, "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 5.9, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }