Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Jul 30, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-37606
CVE-2021-37606
Description
Meow hash 0.5/calico does not sufficiently thwart key recovery by an attacker who can query whether there's a collision in the bottom bits of the hashes of two messages, as demonstrated by an attack against a long-running web service that allows the attacker to infer collisions by measuring timing differences.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:a:meow_hash_project:meow_hash:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- calico/Meow hashdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- news.ycombinator.com/itemnvdThird Party Advisory
- peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysisnvdThird Party Advisory
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