Cryptographic Issues Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on Open this link in a new tab package, versions (,1.51)
Attack Complexity
Low
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-31048
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published
22 Oct 2015
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disclosed
22 Oct 2015
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 22 Oct 2015
CVE-2015-7940 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on
to version 1.51 or higher.
Overview
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-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".