GHSA-w285-wf9q-5w69

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    GHSA-w285-wf9q-5w69

    Published: 17 Oct 2018Last Modified: 12 Sept 2025

    Summary: In Bouncy Castle JCE Provider the ECIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode

    Details: In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the ECIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode. This mode is regarded as unsafe and support for it has been removed from the provider.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000352, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/9385b0ebd277724b167fe1d1456e3c112112be1f, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w285-wf9q-5w69, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004, 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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