GHSA-9gp4-qrff-c648

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    GHSA-9gp4-qrff-c648

    Published: 18 Oct 2018Last Modified: 12 Sept 2025

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

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000345, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/21dcb3d9744c83dcf2ff8fcee06dbca7bfa4ef35#diff-4439ce586bf9a13bfec05c0d113b8098, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9gp4-qrff-c648, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk14

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.56

    Affected versions

    1.38

    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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