Out-of-bounds Write Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on package, versions [1.63,1.64)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.61% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-472373
  • published 8 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 8 Oct 2019
  • credit Uknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on to version 1.64 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. The ASN.1 parser in can trigger a large attempted memory allocation, and resultant OutOfMemoryError error, via crafted ASN.1 data.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

7.5 high