CVE-2016-6298

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6298
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6298.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6298
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2016-09-01T23:59:01.160Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:46:01.165027Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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).

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/latchset/jwcrypto

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Fixed

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.1.0
v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v0.3.0
v0.3.1