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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/21dcb3d9744c83dcf2ff8fcee06dbca7bfa4ef35#diff-4439ce586bf9a13bfec05c0d113b8098

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-04

Updated: 2020-10-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium