Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting bouncycastle package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-BOUNCYCASTLE-7577210
  • published 1 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 11 Apr 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for BouncyCastle.

Overview

BouncyCastle is a C# implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the solveQuadraticEquation() function used for certificate verification in ECCurve.java. Passing a large f2m parameter can cause excessive CPU consumption.

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)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

6.5 medium