Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-33560 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
Libgcrypt before 1.8.8 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 mishandles ElGamal encryption because it lacks exponent blinding to address a side-channel attack against mpi_powm, and the window size is not chosen appropriately. This, for example, affects use of ElGamal in OpenPGP.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T5466
- https://dev.gnupg.org/rCe8b7f10be275bcedb5fc05ed4837a89bfd605c61
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T5305
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T5328
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-13
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7OAPCUGPF3VLA7QAJUQSL255D4ITVTL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BKKTOIGFW2SGN3DO2UHHVZ7MJSYN4AAB/