PT-2018-4639 · Bouncy Castle+3 · Bouncy Castle Jce Provider+3

Published 2018-06-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1000345

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.55 and earlier

Description The issue concerns a padding oracle attack in the DHIES/ECIES CBC mode. In environments where timings can be observed, an attacker can identify when decryption fails due to padding with enough observations.

Recommendations For Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.55 and earlier, consider updating to a version newer than 1.55 to mitigate the risk of a padding oracle attack. At the moment, there is no information about additional mitigation measures for this issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-361

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1000345

DLA-1418-1

GHSA-9GP4-QRFF-C648

MGASA-2018-0376

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1689-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10661-1

RHSA-2018:2927

USN-3727-1

Affected Products

Bouncy Castle Jce Provider

Jira

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 50

• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/21dcb3d9744c83dcf2ff8fcee06dbca7bfa4ef35#diff-4439ce586bf9a13bfec05c0d113b8098 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1000339 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6644 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1000345 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10661-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1000342 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1000345 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1418-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000345 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1000338 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1000345 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1000346 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7940 · Vendor Advisory