Cryptographic Issues Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on package, versions [,1.51)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.25% (66th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-31041
- published 22 Oct 2015
- disclosed 22 Oct 2015
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 22 Oct 2015
CVE-2015-7940 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on to version 1.51 or higher.
Overview
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on 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".
CVSS Scores
version 3.1