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Cryptographic Issues Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14 package, versions [,1.50)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.25% (65th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-31038
  • published 22 Oct 2015
  • disclosed 22 Oct 2015
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 22 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-7940 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-310 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14 to version 1.50 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14 is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues as it does not validate a point is within the elliptic curve, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain private keys via a series of crafted elliptic curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) key exchanges, aka an "invalid curve attack".