CVE-2020-28052 Affecting bouncycastle package, versions <1.65-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.67% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BOUNCYCASTLE-1052901
  • published19 Dec 2020
  • disclosed18 Dec 2020

Introduced: 18 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-28052  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable bouncycastle to version 1.65-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bouncycastle package and not the bouncycastle package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.

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