CVE-2016-1000345

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.9
Exploit probability—
ProductBouncycastle Bc-java
PublishedJun 4, 2018
First seenJun 4, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk141.56 or later
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk151.56 or later
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on1.56 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
bouncycastle bc-javav ≤ 1.55—
debian debian_linux8.0—
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14Mavenv < 1.561.56
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15Mavenv < 1.561.56
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onMavenv < 1.561.56

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