CVE-2021-33560

Public on 2021-06-08
Modified on 2024-03-01
Description

A side-channel attack flaw was found in the way libgcrypt implemented Elgamal encryption. This flaw allows an attacker to decrypt parts of ciphertext encrypted using Elgamal, for example, when using OpenPGP. 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 libgcrypt 2022-04-04 23:47 ALAS-2022-1578
Amazon Linux 2 - Core libgcrypt 2022-04-04 23:22 ALAS2-2022-1769

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