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Information Exposure Affecting jwcrypto package, versions [,0.3.2)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.17% (54th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-JWCRYPTO-40404
  • published 31 Aug 2016
  • disclosed 31 Aug 2016
  • credit Simo Sorce
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Introduced: 31 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6298 Open this link in a new tab
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Overview

jwcrypto is a Implementation of JOSE Web standards 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).