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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-09-06T18:44:47

Updated: 2021-10-05T17:06:19

Reserved: 2021-09-06T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-40530

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-06T19:15:07.673

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:38:36.797


Link: CVE-2021-40530

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