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python-rsa — security advisory
It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA.
- Products
- python-rsa
- Affected versions
- 4.8-1, 4.9-1, 4.9-2, 4.9-3, 4.9-4
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25658
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25658
python-rsa
Fixed versions: Not specified
python-rsa
Fixed versions: Not specified
python-rsa
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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