Medium
Security advisory
In Charm 0.43, any two users can collude to achieve the ability to decrypt YCT14 data.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-37588
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Charm 0.43, any two users can collude to achieve the ability to decrypt YCT14 data.
osv:CVE-2021-37588
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/460",
"https://github.com/JHUISI/charm/blob/dev/charm/schemes/abenc/abenc_yct14.py",
"https://www2.hci.uni-hannover.de/papers/Tan2019.pdf",
"https://github.com/JHUISI/charm/issues/276"
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