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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-25658: Security patch for python-rsa (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 12, 2020
Added
Jul 21, 2023
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

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