CVE-2016-1000346

low

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the other party DH public key is not fully validated. This can cause issues as invalid keys can be used to reveal details about the other party's private key where static Diffie-Hellman is in use. As of release 1.56 the key parameters are checked on agreement calculation.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/1127131c89021612c6eefa26dbe5714c194e7495#diff-d525a20b8acaed791ae2f0f770eb5937

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-04

Updated: 2020-10-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low