GHSA-9gp4-qrff-c648

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 and org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2016-1000345
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DHIES/ECIES CBC mode vulnerable to padding oracle attack. For BC 1.55 and older, in an environment where timings can be easily observed, it is possible with enough observations to identify when the decryption is failing due to padding.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14introduced 0, fixed 1.56
Maven · org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15introduced 0, fixed 1.56
Maven · org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onintroduced 0, fixed 1.56

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database