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Insecure Encryption 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
    0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-32368
  • published 13 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 4 Nov 2016
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 4 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-1000344 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-329 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 Insecure Encryption. The DHIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode. This mode is regarded as unsafe and support for it has been removed from the provider.

References

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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