CVE-2021-37587
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
6.5
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
- Record
CVE-2021-37587- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-327
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
- Record
CVE-2021-37587- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-24145 No score
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
- Record
EUVD-2021-24145- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-42c8-ghxg-4f28
6.5
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
- Record
GHSA-42c8-ghxg-4f28- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-326
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
6.5
In Charm 0.43, any single user can decrypt DAC-MACS or MA-ABE-YJ14 data.
- Record
CVE-2021-37587- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2021-37587 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Jhu Charm, published July 27, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.82%, the 57th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
github.com/JHUISI/charm/issues/276
jhuisi.github.io/charm/charm/schemes/abenc/abenc_dacmacs_yj14.html
jhuisi.github.io/charm/_modules/abenc_maabe_yj14.html
eprint.iacr.org/2020/460
www2.hci.uni-hannover.de/papers/Tan2019.pdf
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37587
github.com/advisories/GHSA-42c8-ghxg-4f28