CWE-780 (Use of RSA Algorithm without OAEP) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.
The product uses the RSA algorithm but does not incorporate Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP), which might weaken the encryption.
| Kind | Name | Class | Prevalence | OS / CPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language | — | Not Language-Specific | Undetermined | — |
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-9071 | 2025-08-29 | Erroneously using an all-zero seed for RSA-OEAP padding instead of the generated random bytes, in Oberon microsystems AG’s Oberon PSA Crypto library in all versions up to 1.5.1, results in determinist… |
| CVE-2024-51456 | 2025-01-12 | IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 through 21.0.7.19 and 23.0.0 through 23.0.19 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive data that may be exposed through certain crypto-analytic attacks. |
| CVE-2022-40722 | 2023-04-25 | A misconfiguration of RSA padding implemented in the PingID Adapter for PingFederate to support Offline MFA with PingID mobile authenticators is vulnerable to pre-computed dictionary attacks, leading … |
| Date | Name | Version | Importance | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-06-01 | CWE Content Team | 1.13 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2017-11-08 | CWE Content Team | 3.0 | — | updated Modes_of_Introduction, References, Relationships |
| 2020-02-24 | CWE Content Team | 4.0 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2021-10-28 | CWE Content Team | 4.6 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2023-01-31 | CWE Content Team | 4.10 | — | updated Description |
| 2023-04-27 | CWE Content Team | 4.11 | — | updated Detection_Factors, References, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction |
| 2023-06-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.12 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |
| 2025-09-09 | CWE Content Team | 4.18 | — | updated References |
| 2025-12-11 | CWE Content Team | 4.19 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities |