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High · 8.1 CVE-2021-21387 EUVD-2021-8691

Partial secret key disclosure, improper safety number calculation, & inadequate encryption strength

Published Mar 19, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Wrongthink peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted messenger with PeerJS and Axolotl ratchet. In wrongthink from version 2.0.0 and before 2.3.0 there was a set of vulnerabilities causing inadequate encryption strength. Part of the secret identity key was disclosed by the fingerprint used for connection. Additionally, the safety number was improperly calculated. It was computed using part of one of the public identity keys instead of being derived from both public identity keys. This caused issues in computing safety numbers which would potentially be exploitable in the real world. Additionally there was inadequate encryption strength due to use of 1024-bit DSA keys. These issues are all fixed in version 2.3.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
parabirb wrongthink >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.0 —

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