CVE-2006-4021

2006-08-1721:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

72.3%

JSON

The cryptographic module in ScatterChat 1.0.x allows attackers to identify patterns in large numbers of messages by identifying collisions using a birthday attack on the custom padding mechanism for ECB mode encryption.

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/1396

www.scatterchat.com/advisories/2006-01_non_tech.html

www.scatterchat.com/advisories/2006-01_tech.html

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443038/100/100/threaded

www.securityfocus.com/bid/19485