CVE-2016-1000345

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-06-04

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-361

Affected products

• Bc-java (Bouncycastle)
• Debian Linux (Debian)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/21dcb3d9744c83dcf2ff8fcee06dbca7bfa4ef35#diff-4439ce586bf9a13bfec05c0d113b8098
• 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