GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-xrx6-fmxq-rjj2 Timing attacks in python-rsa

HIGH Published 2021-04-30 Modified 2024-10-26 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-25658
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
rsa
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-327, CWE-385
Reviewed
2021-04-20

Affected packages

• PyPI rsa: >= 2.1, < 4.7 → fixed in 4.7

Description

It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-25658 It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness
  • CWE-385 Covert Timing Channel weakness

References