CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2021-37606

Meow hash 0.5/calico does not sufficiently thwart key recovery by an attacker who can query whether there's a collision in the bottom bits of the hashes of two messages, as demonstrated by an attack against a long-running web service that allows the attacker to infer collisions by measuring timing differences.

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

5.3 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysis Third Party Advisory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27978878 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:meow_hash_project:meow_hash:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2021-07-30 02:15

Updated : 2021-08-10 06:18

NVD link : CVE-2021-37606

Mitre link : CVE-2021-37606

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-327