Cryptographic Issues Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15 package, versions [0,]


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-31046
  • 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?

There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15 is a package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5.

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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