Comparison Using Wrong Factors Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 package, versions [1.65,1.67)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
1.67% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-1052817
  • published18 Dec 2020
  • disclosed18 Dec 2020
  • creditMatti Varanka, Tero Rontti

Introduced: 18 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-28052  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1025  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 to version 1.67 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Comparison Using Wrong Factors. 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.

CVSS Scores

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