Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-37606 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in Meow Hash Project Meow Hash 0.5

047910
CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
meow-hash-project
CWE-203

Summary

Meow hash 0.5/calico does not sufficiently thwart key recovery by an attacker who can query whether there's a collision in the bottom bits of the hashes of two messages, as demonstrated by an attack against a long-running web service that allows the attacker to infer collisions by measuring timing differences.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Meow_Hash_Project
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)