CVE-2016-1494

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

13/01/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

5.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:rsa::::::python::*		3.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:rsa::::::python::*		3.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:::::::*

CVE-2016-1494

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools