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CVE-2020-13757

Public on 2020-06-01
Modified on 2020-08-31
Description

A flaw was found in the python-rsa package, where it does not explicitly check the ciphertext length against the key size and ignores the leading 0 bytes during the decryption of the ciphertext. This flaw allows an attacker to perform a ciphertext attack, leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 python-rsa 2020-08-26 23:09 ALAS-2020-1421
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python-rsa 2020-07-31 19:21 ALAS2-2020-1470

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N