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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-32369
  • published13 Jun 2018
  • disclosed18 Apr 2018
  • creditArmin Lunkeit

Introduced: 18 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-1000180  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-573  (opens 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.

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