Security Advisory

CVE-2021-40528

5.9
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

The ElGamal implementation in Libgcrypt before 1.9.4 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.
Published Date September 6, 2021
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory