Comparison Using Wrong Factors Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on package, versions [1.65,1.67)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.4% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-1052818
- published 18 Dec 2020
- disclosed 18 Dec 2020
- credit Matti Varanka, Tero Rontti
Introduced: 18 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-28052 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on to version 1.67 or higher.
Overview
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on 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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