Timing Attack Affecting bouncycastle package, versions [,1.8.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-BOUNCYCASTLE-1296078
  • published 20 May 2021
  • disclosed 20 May 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade BouncyCastle to version 1.8.7 or higher.

Overview

BouncyCastle is a C# implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. A timing issue within the EC math library can expose information about the private key when an attacker is able to observe timing information for the generation of multiple deterministic ECDSA signatures.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.9 medium
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SUSE

5.9 medium
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Red Hat

5.9 medium