Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15to18 package, versions [,1.73)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-7986102
  • published 17 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 23 Nov 2023
  • credit Amazon AWS Security Team

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15to18 to version 1.73 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15to18 is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') within the org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. Parsing a file that has crafted ASN.1 data through the PEMParser causes an OutOfMemoryError.

Workaround

The attack can be avoided by filtering PEM requests containing EXTERNAL tagged encodings.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

5.5 medium
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Red Hat

5.5 medium