Cryptographic Issues Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 package, versions [,1.51)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-31044
  • published22 Oct 2015
  • disclosed22 Oct 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-7940  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 to version 1.51 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-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".

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