GHSA-537h-rv9q-vvph

Python-RSA decryption of ciphertext leads to DoS

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2020-13757
Aliases
PYSEC-2020-99
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

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).

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · rsaintroduced 0, fixed 4.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database