CVE-2012-2417

mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.024 · 84 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.37% (84th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

15 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–5.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-310USprimary

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
dlitz pycrypto≤ 2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 1.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 1.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 1.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 1.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dlitz pycrypto= 2.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI pycrypto< 2.6osvUSpkg:pypi/pycrypto

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v367-p58w-98h5PyCrypto makes Use of Insufficiently Random Values2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key.
PYSEC-2012-162012-06-17vendor · osvUS
PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-06-17modified 2026-06-16

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references (41)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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