CVE-2016-1494
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 7.1%
exploitation probability
7.1%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The verify function in the RSA package for Python (Python-RSA) before 3.3 allows attackers to spoof signatures with a small public exponent via crafted signature padding, aka a BERserk attack.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175897.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175942.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00032.htmlhttps://bitbucket.org/sybren/python-rsa/pull-requests/14/security-fix-bb06-attack-in-verify-by/diffhttps://blog.filippo.io/bleichenbacher-06-signature-forgery-in-python-rsa/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79829