CVE-2021-3580
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.10%Published: 8/5/2021Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2021-3580
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/nettlefrom 0, < 3.5.1-r2
- Debian/nettlefrom 0, < 3.7.3-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |