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    GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr

    Published: 16 Oct 2018Last Modified: 12 Sept 2025

    Summary: Bouncy Castle has a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator

    Details: Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000180, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/22467b6e8fe19717ecdf201c0cf91bacf04a55ad, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/73780ac522b7795fc165630aba8d5f5729acc839, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4233, https://www.bountysource.com/issues/58293083-rsa-key-generation-computation-of-iterations-for-mr-primality-test, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0003, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2018-1000180, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0877, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2643, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2428, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2425, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2424, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2423, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106567

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.60

    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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