CVE-2020-13757
python-rsa: decryption of ciphertext leads to DoS
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
1Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
Python-RSA before 4.1 ignores leading '\0' bytes during decryption of ciphertext. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact, e.g., by helping an attacker to infer that an application uses Python-RSA, or if the length of accepted ciphertext affects application behavior (such as by causing excessive memory allocation).
Python-RSA versión 4.1, ignora bytes '\0' principales durante la desencriptación del texto cifrado. Esto podría tener un impacto relevante para la seguridad, por ejemplo, al ayudar a un atacante a inferir que una aplicación utiliza Python-RSA, o si la longitud del texto cifrado aceptado afecta al comportamiento de la aplicación (por ejemplo, al causar una asignación excesiva de memoria)
A flaw was found in the python-rsa package, where it does not explicitly check the ciphertext length against the key size and ignores the leading 0 bytes during the decryption of the ciphertext. This flaw allows an attacker to perform a ciphertext attack, leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
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CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2020-06-01 CVE Reserved
- 2020-06-01 CVE Published
- 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
- 2024-08-04 First Exploit
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
CAPEC
References (7)
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https://github.com/sybrenstuvel/python-rsa/issues/146 | Issue Tracking |
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https://github.com/sybrenstuvel/python-rsa/issues/146#issuecomment-641845667 | 2024-08-04 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Python-rsa Project Search vendor "Python-rsa Project" | Python-rsa Search vendor "Python-rsa Project" for product "Python-rsa" | < 4.1 Search vendor "Python-rsa Project" for product "Python-rsa" and version " < 4.1" | - |
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Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject" | Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" | 31 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "31" | - |
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Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject" | Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" | 32 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "32" | - |
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Canonical Search vendor "Canonical" | Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" | 14.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "14.04" | esm |
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