legrandin/pycrypto · Security
PyCrypto makes Use of Insufficiently Random Values
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-v367-p58w-98h5
- CVE ID
- CVE-2012-2417
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2417 ↗
- https://github.com/Legrandin/pycrypto/commit/9f912f13df99ad3421eff360d6a62d7dbec755c2 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto/+bug/985164 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75871 ↗
- https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/blob/373ea760f21701b162e8c4912a66928ee30d401a/ChangeLog ↗
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15083589 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081713.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081759.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081789.html ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2502 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:117 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/1 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140724111917/http://secunia.com/advisories/49263 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228184120/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53687 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pycrypto/PYSEC-2012-16.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v367-p58w-98h5 ↗