A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.
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cve-program · CVE-2021-3580
PublishedA flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.
- Source published
- 5 Aug 2021 00:00:00 UTC
- Source modified
- 14 Oct 2026 09:49:47 UTC
- Observed here
- 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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