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Signature Validation Bypass Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on package, versions [,1.56)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.38% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-32364
  • published 13 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 15 Oct 2016
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 15 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-1000342 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-347 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on to version 1.56 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Signature Validation Bypass. It does not fully validate ASN.1 encoding of signature on verification.

References

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None