Timing Attack Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on package, versions [,1.66)
Attack Complexity
Low
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-1296076
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published
20 May 2021
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disclosed
20 May 2021
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 20 May 2021
CVE-2020-15522 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on to version 1.66 or higher.
Overview
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on is a Java 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.