CVE-2016-6298

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 1, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 26, 2016

Description

The _Rsa15 class in the RSA 1.5 algorithm implementation in jwa.py in jwcrypto before 0.3.2 lacks the Random Filling protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a Million Message Attack (MMA).

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/issues/65
https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/pull/66
92729vdb-entry
https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/releases/tag/v0.3.2
https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/commit/eb5be5bd94c8cae1d7f3ba9801377084d8e5a7ba

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