High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-3580
CVE-2021-3580
Description
A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.
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Affected products
54- osv-coords47 versionspkg:apk/wolfi/nettlepkg:apk/wolfi/nettle-utilspkg:apk/wolfi/nettle-devpkg:rpm/almalinux/gnutlspkg:rpm/almalinux/gnutls-c%2B%2Bpkg:rpm/almalinux/gnutls-danepkg:rpm/almalinux/gnutls-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/gnutls-utilspkg:apk/chainguard/nettle-devpkg:apk/chainguard/nettle-utilspkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.0pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.0pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.0pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.0pkg:apk/chainguard/nettlepkg:rpm/almalinux/nettlepkg:rpm/almalinux/nettle-develpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:apk/chainguard/nettle-staticpkg:apk/wolfi/nettle-staticpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/opensuse/libnettle&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/libnettle&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libnettle&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSS
< 0+ 46 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.16-4.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.16-4.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.16-4.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.16-4.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.16-4.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-7.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-7.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-lp152.4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-4.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.1-13.6.1
- nettle/nettledescription
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- (no CPE)
- cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <3.7.3
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00008.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0006/nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-24nvd
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