CVE-2024-29857

high

Description

An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.

References

https://www.securityweek.com/atlassian-patches-vulnerabilities-in-bamboo-bitbucket-confluence-crowd/

https://www.securityweek.com/atlassian-patches-vulnerabilities-in-bamboo-confluence-crowd-jira/

https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-05-14

Updated: 2024-08-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High