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Insecure Encryption Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on package, versions [1.54,1.60)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-32369
  • published 13 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 18 Apr 2018
  • credit Armin Lunkeit
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Introduced: 18 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-1000180 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-573 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on to version 1.60 or higher.

Overview

BouncyCastle is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Encryption. It has a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected.

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)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None