CVE-2021-37606

MEDIUM

meow_hash 0.5/calico - Inadequate Encryption Strength via Collision Timing Attack

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27978878
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysis

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0074
EPSS Percentile 49.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-326 CWE-203
Status published
Products (1)
meow_hash_project/meow_hash 0.5
Published Jul 30, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026