DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28052

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28052

    Published: 18 Dec 2020Last Modified: 11 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-28052

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-28052

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bouncycastle

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/bouncycastle?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.65-2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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