{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2021-40528", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "url": "https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923" }, { "url": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/07/20/insecurity-elgamal-pt1" }, { "url": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2021/09/06/insecurity-elgamal-pt2" }, { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "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" }, { "refsource": "GENTOO", "name": "GLSA-202210-13", "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-13" } ] } }