PT-2013-1372
CVE-2007-6755
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Published
2013-10-11
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Updated
2022-11-01
Description by
CVSS 2.0
5.8
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation (Dual EC DRBG) algorithm (affected versions not specified)
Description
The Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation algorithm contains point Q constants that may have a relationship to certain "skeleton key" values. This could allow attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of those values.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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