CVE-2012-2417

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

dlitz PyCrypto

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-17 03:41:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:31:00

Affected Software

dlitz PyCrypto 1.0.0

1.0.0

dlitz PyCrypto 1.0.1

1.0.1

dlitz PyCrypto 1.0.2

1.0.2

dlitz PyCrypto 1.1 alpha2

1.1

dlitz PyCrypto 1.9 alpha1

1.9

dlitz PyCrypto 1.9 alpha2

1.9

dlitz PyCrypto 1.9 alpha3

1.9

dlitz PyCrypto 1.9 alpha4

1.9

dlitz PyCrypto 1.9 alpha5

1.9

dlitz PyCrypto 1.9 alpha6

1.9

dlitz PyCrypto 2.0

2.0

dlitz PyCrypto 2.0.1

2.0.1

dlitz PyCrypto 2.1.0

2.1.0

dlitz PyCrypto 2.1.0 alpha1

2.1.0

dlitz PyCrypto 2.1.0 alpha2

2.1.0

dlitz PyCrypto 2.1.0 beta1

2.1.0

dlitz PyCrypto 2.2

2.2

dlitz PyCrypto 2.3

2.3

dlitz PyCrypto 2.4

2.4

dlitz PyCrypto 2.4.1

2.4.1

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