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CVE-2018-6594
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-03T15:29:00.653 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:02:04.427

Summary

lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data (i.e., it does not have semantic security in face of a ciphertext-only attack). The Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption does not hold for PyCrypto's ElGamal implementation.

Affected products

dlitz — pycrypto

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References

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