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Bouncy Castle has a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 16, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.60

Patched versions

1.60
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15 (Maven)
< 1.60
1.60

Description

Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have 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. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 5, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 16, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1000180

GHSA ID

GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr

Source code

No known source code
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